Fifty years after the youth of 1976 bravely protested for their rights, Youth Day calls for a critical examination of the barriers facing today's young people in South Africa. This article explores the need for accountability and institutional responsibility to ensure genuine access to opportunities.

FIVE decades on, the mood, aspirations, and yearnings of South Africa’s youth are no different from those that stirred the streets of Soweto in 1976.Then, young people demanded…

Youth Day commemorates the 1976 Soweto uprising, but half a century later South Africa’s young people face a different battle, record unemployment, inequality and a widening gap…