Youth month
NIKKI BUSH: Why not just forget about Youth Day?
Youth month just marks that moment in history instead of celebrating 45 years of progress since then, writes Nikki Bush.
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Agape Youth Movement helps young people face COVID challenges
The movement - in partnership with the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) - hosted a webinar on Thursday discussing the role of youth in the fight against COVID-19.
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‘This SA is for the future & the future is you’ - Govt launches Youth Month
Youth Month 2021 was launched on 1 June in Pretoria, where Minister of Women in the Presidency, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, told the youth in attendance that they were the future. Youth Month is an initiative by the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities and its agency, the National Youth Development Agency, in partnership with the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture. #YouthMonth #June16 #SouthAfrica
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YONELA DIKO: Youth and the climate crisis: the next frontier of struggle
Had young people been at the helm of Eskom, we'd be having a different story to tell after lockdown, writes Yonela Diko.
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GEOFFREY MAKHUBO: Our youth mustn’t be content to dig COVID-19 graves
Imagine what we could achieve if young people, with their propensity to influence trends, were to decide that the new fashion to be followed is one that is consistent with saving lives, writes Geoffrey Makhubo.
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BUSANI NGCAWENI: To be young, willing but black
Busani Ngcaweni writes passionately about the challenges faced by young black South Africans, 25 years after the demise of Apartheid.
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Ramaphosa: ‘We’re on a mission to support young people’
The president says the nation has a responsibility to ensure the flame keeps burning through the youth.
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Ramaphosa expected to deliver Youth Day speech in Polokwane
Ramaphosa says because this year's commemoration coincides with 25 years of freedom it takes place under the theme “25 years of democracy: a celebration of youth activism”.
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NYDA calls for economic inclusion as youth mark 1976 students massacre
The comments come as South African marks 43 years since young people protested in Soweto against Afrikaans being used as a primary medium of instruction in schools.
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'The Fall': A play about when Cecil John Rhodes fell
As youth month winds to an end, South Africans have been reminded of the role of young people in galvanising change in the play showing now at the State Theatre.
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Dlamini Zuma to launch Youth Month programme in Soweto
The event will be held under the theme Live The Legacy Towards a Socio-economically Empowered Youth.
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‘Heartbreak’ as youth month sees deaths of 4 children in WC
More than 20 minors have been murdered in communities including Khayelitsha, Atlantis, Strand and Mitchells Plain since January.
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OPINION: Will the black middle class use their advantage to lead?
Bafana Nhlapo says the youth must actively decide the role they will play in bring about social change.
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Zuma: SA families are being torn apart by drug use
The president says drug use among SA's youth has left many parents living in fear of their own children.
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ANC GP promises more opportunities for young people
Chairperson Paul Mashatile said the youth will be prioritised and admitted there are some challenges.
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Constitution Hill commemorates 40 years since ‘76 Soweto Uprisings
The annual Basha Uhuru Youth Festival kicked off with a launch of an art exhibition last night.
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[WATCH] Govt kicks off #YouthMonth with wreath laying ceremony for class of '76
The National Youth Development Agency started the #YouthMonth celebration with a wreath laying ceremony at the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto where they remembered the class of 1976.
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[WATCH] ANCYL President Collen Maine visits Soweto schools
To commemorate the beginning of Youth Month, ANC Youth League President Collen Maine visited Orlando West High School in Soweto to give pupils encouragement ahead of their exams and to remind them of struggle previous generations endured.
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Youth Day: The class of 2015 picks up the baton
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi led a march of over 3,000 learners through the streets of Soweto on Monday in commemoration of Youth Day.
