JUNE 16 YOUTH DAY IN commemoration of the thousands of children who died in the struggle against apartheid education which came to a head in the Soweto uprising of June 16 1976, today is celebrated as the Youth Day public holiday in South Africa.
ANOTHER NAT JUMPS ANOTHER senior member of the National Party has quit, this time NP Pietermaritzburg council whip Pieter van Pletzen. Van Pletzen’s resignation brings to about 60 the number of party officebearers to have quit the Nats since secretary-general Roelf Meyer left to form a new political group last month.