Yu Chi Chan Club
The Yu Chi Chan Club (YCCC) was a militant study group of nine members founded in Cape Town in 1962 by expelled members of the African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa (APDUSA): including Ottilie and Kenneth Abrahams, Dulcie September, Neville Alexander, Fikile Bam, Andreas Shipinga, Marcus Solomon, Xenophon Pitt. Amongst other things, the group studies and wrote on the politics and prospects of guerrilla warfare in South Africa at the time. Later in 1962 the YCCC was replaced by the National Liberation Front (NLF). After exile and imprisonments, YCCC members were central to SACHED’s education work in South Africa and Namibia in the 1980s.
I also belonged to an underground organisation known as the Yu Chi Chan or Y3 Club, which is Chinese for guerrilla warfare. This was a secret organisation operating cells in South Africa to prepare for the armed struggle against the South African Government. For us, at the time, South West Africa was not really regarded as a separate country in the sense that the oppressive ruler in both countries was the South African government.”
— Ottilie Abrahams, 2004