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South Africa: From Political Freedom to Youth Economic Exclusion
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (646+ words) South Africa commemorates three significant anniversaries this year: on 27 April, the country marked 32 years of democracy; on 16 June, 50 years would have passed since the Soweto student uprising of 1976; and on 10 December, the country will celebrate 30 years since the signing of…...
Youth Day: Why the promise of democracy remains unfulfilled for a new generation
9+ hour, 20+ min ago (1358+ words) The youth of 1976 fought for democracy. The youth of 2026 are fighting for it to deliver Every year on 16 June, South Africa pauses to remember the courageous schoolchildren who marched through Soweto in 1976. We remember the children " armed only with conviction…...
Safer communities start with investing in the mental well-being of our youth
17+ hour, 46+ min ago (640+ words) South Africa's young people are carrying more psychosocial and economic insecurities than their generation should have to bear. This is partly because of intergenerational trauma caused by a myriad issues, including the inhumanity of our political, social, economic and cultural…...
RESET@50: Youth cannot build a future they are excluded from
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (720+ words) A true reset requires something deeper: redistribution of opportunity, trust in youth leadership and a willingness to shift power Every generation is told that it will inherit the future. For South Africa's youth, the statement carries both promise and pressure....
We call them youth; they were children
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (932+ words) Every June we return to the children of 1976. We picture the rows of schoolchildren walking out of their classrooms in Soweto and the boy carried lifeless through the smoke, Hector Pieterson, who was 12 years old." We have honoured them, rightly,…...
Relevance of Youth Day in modern era
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (648+ words) Madlanga commission revelations are adding to the youth's growing disillusionment with society The 50th anniversary of the 16 June 1976 student uprising raises questions about the relevance of celebrating Youth Day amid damning revelations at the Madlanga commission. An estimated four out of…...
Youth called to take up the baton
4+ day, 44+ min ago (989+ words) The launch of #Youth Lives Matter aims to reposition them not as passive recipients of democracy but as agents driving advocacy, community action and policy engagement Young people gathered in Soweto last week Friday, not only to commemorate the past…...
Youth are not the future but the present
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (1649+ words) Fifty years after the historic events of 16 June 1976, today's youth have valuable lessons to learn from Tsietsi Mashinini and his generation, says the writer One of the commendable and often overlooked facts about the youth of 1976 and the Young Lions…...
The mental health crisis facing children and adolescents demands bold ideas
4+ week, 18+ hour ago (401+ words) There are more than two billion children and adolescents in the world today, each with their own dreams, struggles and vision for the future. Whether those futures are realised depends, more than we often acknowledge, on their mental health. Mental…...
Joblessness remains a bugbear " The Mail & Guardian
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (415+ words) South Africa's unemployment crisis is rapidly becoming one of the country's biggest political and social threats. Statistics South Africa's latest labour force data should dispel any illusion that modest economic stabilisation is translating into meaningful relief for millions of citizens....