On Youth Day, South Africa reflects on the legacy of young activists and the urgent need for innovative solutions to empower today's youth in a challenging economic landscape.
On 16 June, Youth Day, South Africa pauses not only to remember the courage of young people, but to confront the unfinished work of building a country worthy of their sacrifice.
Fifty years ago, Soweto learners protested an apartheid education system that sought to impose Afrikaans as a compulsory medium of instruction.
Their resistance was about far more than language. It was a demand for dignity, agency, access and the right to imagine a different future.
Today, Youth Day asks a different but deeply connected question: how do we give the country’s youth not only memory, but the means to build?
