In 1944 the African National Congress' Youth League was formed at the Bantu Men's Social Centre, with Anton Lembede elected as president. The only woman at the founding meeting was Nontsikelelo Albertina Metetiwe (1918–), who married Sisulu on 15 July that year at Cofimvaba, in the Transkei. Ellen Khuzwayo became the League's secretary. The Sisulu's wedding reception was held at the Bantu Men's Social Centre on 17 July. The reception included Nelson Mandela and Anton Lambede, who with David Wilcox Hlahane Bopape (1915–2004), Oliver Tambo, A.P. Mda, Godfrey Pitje, and Sisulu constituted the Youth League's first National Executive Committee. While working at the Premier Milling Company in the early 1930s, Sisulu attended night school at the Social Centre in 1933. When he was fired from Premier for organising a strike for higher wages in 1936, Sisulu worked as a distribution agent for "The Bantu World", then under leadership of Social Centre alumnus Selope Thema.