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In the 37 years prior, the ANC had embarked on a soft approach to the struggle, pleading for concessions and privileges for the black population from the white colonial rulers, misguided in thinking that such pleading would appeal to the white conscience and lead to the extension of the franchise of full rights and equality to black people without a fight.

In the meantime, the white colonial rule continued with its evil policies and laws - the Land Act of , the Natives Urban Areas Act, the Native Administration Act, and the Hertzog legislation. Ultimately, a new generation of young black leaders was bred. Ones that were not going to plead with the colonial government any longer, and were ready to stand up and fight for those rights.

The League brought militancy to the organisation and mass mobilisation of the people to prepare themselves for battle. There would be no collaboration with the regime, and there was to be widespread civil disobedience. The contempt for Africans by the colonial and apartheid government was never to be tolerated. The league also championed the Freedom Charter, and that South Africa belonged to all who lived in it, black and white.

This new wave of militancy brought by the ANCYL - the defiance campaigns, the mass actions, and the boycotts- led to the banning of political parties in This would lead to a year struggle that had to be conducted underground and in foreign lands until February , when all parties were unbanned and political prisoners released from prison.

After , the conditions of struggle were vastly different from the struggle of the s the youth league had led so valiantly. The task and responsibility of rebuilding a country was a far more complicated affair than fighting a clear and identifiable enemy.

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The ANCYL wanted to continue where it left off as an influential force on the mother body, especially with regard to choosing who the ANC leaders would be, and what programmes of action should be adopted. However, the election of Peter Mokaba ahead of Rapulane Molekane as President of ANCYL in signalled a league that prioritised agitation and rabble-rousing over principle and a clear programme of action.

This meant the ANCYL would vacillate over the years, using its influential status to choose who should lead the ANC, sometimes out of principle and clear policy direction as they supported Thabo Mbeki for ANC President in , and also out of defiance and blind loyalty without principle or policy direction as in , when they supported Jacob Zuma.