South African Youth Congress

The South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) was a pro-

African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...

youth organization, active in the struggle against

Apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

. The motto of SAYCO was "Victory is Certain - Freedom or Death". In 1990 SAYCO merged with the

ANC 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 ...

. Anti-Apartheid organisations Defunct civic and political organisations in South Africa Politics of South Africa Political organisations based in South Africa {{SouthAfrica-poli-stub