The City Youth League, later known as the African Youth League, is a defunct organization that participated in nonviolent resistance against the government in
Rhodesia from its founding in August 1955 until it merged with the old SRANC on September 12, 1957, becoming the new
Southern Rhodesia African National Congress
The Southern Rhodesia African National Congress (SRANC) was a political party active between 1957–1959 in Southern Rhodesia (now modern-day Zimbabwe). Committed to the promotion of indigenous African welfare, it was the first fully fledged ...
.
[Sibanda, Eliakim M. ''The Zimbabwe African People's Union, 1961-87: A Political History of Insurgency in Southern Rhodesia'', 2004. Page 34.]
The CYL was founded by
James Chikerema
James Robert Dambaza Chikerema (2 April 1925 – 22 March 2006) served as the President of the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe.Nyangoni, Wellington Winter. ''Africa in the United Nations System.'' Page 141. He changed his views on militant s ...
,
Dunduzu Chisiza
Dunduzu Kaluli Chisiza (8 August 1930 – 2 September 1962), also known as Gladstone Chisiza, was an African nationalist who was active in the independence movements in Rhodesia and Nyasaland, respectively present-day Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Ear ...
,
George Nyandoro George Bodzo Nyandoro (8 July 1926 – 24 June 1994) was a Zimbabwean politician and activist in the struggle to end white minority rule in Rhodesia. Nyandoro was one of the founders of the Southern Rhodesia African National Congress (SRANC) and se ...
, and
Edson Sithole.
Chikerema served as President and Nyandoro as Vice President.
See also
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African National Congress Youth League
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress (ANC). As set out in its constitution, the ANC Youth League is led by a National Executive Committee (NEC) and a National Working Committee (NW ...
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Rhodesian Bush War
The Rhodesian Bush War, also called the Second as well as the Zimbabwe War of Liberation, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia).
The conflict pitted three for ...
References
Defunct political parties in Zimbabwe
National liberation movements in Africa
Political parties in Rhodesia
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