Programme director, Abner Mosase, welcoming delegates to the three-day UNISA summit
Fifty years after the youth of Soweto marched against injustice and altered the course of South African history, the University of South Africa (UNISA) is hosting what organisers describe as one of the most significant youth governance dialogues on the continent in recent years.
The Youth Regeneration Summit 2026 opens today, June 16, at UNISA's Enoch Sontonga Building on its Sunnyside Campus in Pretoria, running until June 18.
The three-day gathering will bring together student leaders, African Union officials, diplomats, parliamentarians, municipal leaders, academics, entrepreneurs and civil society representatives from across Southern Africa and the African diaspora.
Convened by the UNISA National Student Representative Council (NSRC) and the Abdou Samb Foundation, in partnership with UNISA Library and Information Services and the Department of Leadership and Transformation, the summit seeks to address a question that is becoming increasingly urgent across the continent: how can Africa's largest demographic be given a meaningful voice in the institutions that shape its future?
