Tlhabeli Ralebitso and Godfrey Mbingo.
"June 16 is about remembering the past, because it is also the future. It represents a turning point for South Africa." Suntosh Pillay, Dean Horwitz and Cindy Kotzé took to the corridors of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the University of Cape Town and Mandela Metropolitan University and asked students what June 16 meant to them.
HIV is the driving force behind South Africa’s high child death rates. Unless there is a concerted effort to put child survival strategies in place, the country faces an "unstoppable wave of child mortality", paediatricians have warned. The knock-on effects for the future of South Africa’s youth, and therefore the economy, could be dire.
Since April this year, the African National Congress Youth League and trade union Solidarity have been discussing whether the youth should be exempt from affirmative action. Here, two youth leaders — Solidarity’s Dirk Hermann and the league’s Zizi Kodwa — debate whether affirmative action should apply to those born after 1994.
"The majority of South Africans, I think, live a very mimicked lifestyle." Kwanele Sosibo speaks to artistic young people at a Jo’burg inner-city art gallery about the possibilities that being South African holds, and wonders whether the youth have arrived at a common identity 14 years after the advent of democracy.
Most university students today are concerned about their individual economic freedom. Graduates no longer root for the preservation of a national culture founded on the principles of ubuntu and those enshrined in the Freedom Charter. Does "The people shall share" ring a bell?
Now here’s a publication to warm our mid-winter hearts. Here are 100-and-something young South Africans you have to take to lunch. And if not to lunch, certainly to have in your sights and on your Rolodexes. This is the second year of our publication and it grows from strength to strength.
"Say <i>amakwerrre-kwerrre</i>," I was told by a domestic worker I interviewed. As if by rolling my tongue, her correction of my pronunciation would enable me to express the requisite hatred and anger towards foreigners. This is the unthinking reality that confronts thousands of refugees who flee to South Africa in the hope of attaining a better life for themselves.
Nikiwe Bikitsha, Regan Thaw, Bongani B Nxumalo, Mandy Wiener, Uveka Rangappa, Nontyatyambo Petros, Koketso Sachane, Redi Direko, Unathi Batyashe-Fillis, Thomas Sipho Mlambo, Africa Melane, Siki Mgabadeli, Tsepiso Makwetla, Damon Stapleton and Grant Nash.
Raenette Taljaard, Tshilidzi Marwala, Stuart Wilson, Zandile Mciza, Karin Jacobs, Mamokgethi Setati and Carol Simon.