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Mail & Guardian

16 June

latest news & developments
Hundreds of young people marched to the Union Buildings on 16 June 2013. (Ihsaan Haffejee/GroundUp)
16 JUNE

Youth coalition calls on government to address problems facing young people

The National Youth Coalition says President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration has ignored its pleas over the last two years

  • Umamah Bakharia
3 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
16 JUNE

‘Only entrepreneurship can save the youth of South Africa’ from rising unemployment

The latest official data shows that youth unemployment rose by 1.1% and almost a quarter of a million young people lost their jobs in the first three months of 2023

  • Mandisa Ndlovu
3 min read
A foreign migrant sits on his bed inside a boarded up room occupied by two people on the upstairs floor in a building in the Kwa Mai Mai area in Johannesburg, on May 14, 2020. – Over 50 people, residents of the same building and mostly foreign nationals are currently unemployed because of the lockdown imposed by the South African authorities to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Dozens of them are unable to feed themselves, as the only charity providing them with food has not brought any in several days. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)
16 JUNE

African youth: Empowering the continent’s greatest asset

Education is the best way to turn young people’s potential into realised achievements

  • Christine Dube
5 min read
Fees Must Fall: South Africa’s youth did not expect to be agitating for access to education after the advent of democracy, but neoliberal ANC policies have unfairly excluded mostly black students, which has led to student militantism and disillusionment with the ruling party. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
16 JUNE

Will the EFF capitalise on the ANC’s governance failures?

Good election outcomes for the party will mean Julius Malema’s dangerous racism will again receive airtime

  • Ebrahim Harvey
5 min read
Schrödinger’s babies: The 10 babies appear to be a con; a bunch of lies foisted on us by the intersection of an overactive imagination and a lack of basic journalism. Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images
16 JUNE

Decuplets miss family meeting

While the nation is seized with the 10 babies soapie, the third wave is upon us and the country has moved to level-three lockdown

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read