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CHARACTER; DEMOCRACY
AND DISCIPLINE
ANC YL EDUCATION
MANUAL
• Mass National Liberation Movement and governing
political Party.
• Multi class/multi‐strata with a bias or leaning towards
the black working class, and the rural and urban
poor—as the major motive force for genuine
liberation.
• Stands to objectively benefit and the most reliable
class in any revolutionary transformation programme.
• Broad Church—Organisational Character, not an ideological
telescope.
• National Liberation Movement—
• Governing Party
• S&T “Overall, since 1994, the balance of forces has shifted in
favour of the forces of change. It provides the basis for
speedier implementation of programmes to build a truly
democratic and prosperous society. The legal and policy
scaffolding for this is essentially in place. Most of society
wants this to happen. At least in public discourse, except for a
tiny minority, those apprehensive about change express their
concerns more in terms of pace and scale rather than
substance.
• Morogoro S&T says ‘In our country ‐ more than in any other
part of the oppressed world ‐ it is inconceivable for
liberation to have meaning without a return of the wealth
of the land to the people as a whole. It is therefore a
fundamental feature of our strategy that victory must
embrace more than formal political democracy”.
• Further says “To allow the existing economic forces to retain
their interests intact is to feed the root of racial supremacy
and does not represent even the shadow of liberation”.
• “The AIMS of our National Democratic
Revolution will only be fully realised with the
construction of a social order in which all the
historic consequences of national oppression
and its FOUNDATION, economic exploitation will
be liquidated.
• Democracy is the culture of broader and equal
participation in decision making process and this
includes:
– Elections
– Human Rights
– Equality of Constitutional Rights
– Civil Liberties
– Freedom
– Rule of law
• Democracy is both the goal of, and a critical
means of waging the NDR.
• The National Conference of the ANC YL is the highest decision‐
making body of our unitary organisation and can ratify or
change any decision or policy adopted by structures at other
levels.
• National Conference consists of mandated individuals from all
constitutional structures of the movement at all levels of
organisation.
• The National Conference elects leadership which is responsible
for giving guidance to all organisational processes until the
next national congress.
• This retains the roles of BECs, RECs, PECs and NEC.
• Discipline is a weapon of struggle and
transformation. It does not exist for its own
sake, but to safeguard the unity of the
movement, ensure that it is able to fulfill its
historic mission and achieve its objectives.
Discipline is a political matter.