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Young people want Youth Day to focus on today’s issues

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It’s important to honour past heroes, but today’s youth activists also want their own struggles, and contemporary heroes, to be recognised
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Companies need to give youth jobs so that SA derives dividends from its young people

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Young people with qualifications and in search of employment leave the country because they don’t have the requisite work experience
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Young people must take the baton from the heroes of 1976

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In the hope of creating a better South African future, the youth of today should look to the past
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Ramaphosa: Work experience is a barrier to employment

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The president has urged youth to become agents of their own liberation, saying that their challenges can be overcome
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Class of ’76 weeps for the past – and the present

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When we recall those who paid the ultimate price for quality education, don’t forget current learners who are still struggling for decent schooling.
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Youth have to make hard choices

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In their pursuit of success, today’s young people face different challenges to those of 1976
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Julius Malema and the art of electioneering

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In the last four years, the Economic Freedom Fighters have shown exceptional political acumen in capitalising on civil unrest.
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Malema targets ANC, Zuma and white capital in Youth Day speech

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As Malema spoke, a pair of makeshift coffins were passed through the Boipatong crowd. One read "Rest in Pain Zuma"
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Zuma vows to shield youth from effects of sluggish economy

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Education, entrepreneurship and economic emancipation dominated President Jacob Zuma’s Youth Day speech.
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South Africa has failed its young people. What can be done about it

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The end of apartheid should have heralded a new South Africa for the generation born at its demise. But that hasn't happened.
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Democracy gives memory a new spin

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Youth Day reminds us not to accept a single history blindly but also to question and listen
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Powerfully unpacking of conditions that led to June 16

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'The story is narrated by people who were there and who relay the climate that led to the day we now know as June 16.'
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It’s important to honour past heroes, but today’s youth activists also want their own struggles, and contemporary heroes, to be recognised

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