With every ‘we regret to inform you’ your dignity and self-worth take a knock, but please don’t give up
One of their biggest challenges is getting parents to support ECD practitioners and day mothers and get more involved in their children’s development
The youth of South Africa have innate value and potential that needs to be unlocked and nurtured
South African youths are as disengaged politically as their international siblings. To change this, youth need to be represented as party candidates and employed in local municipalities
A multi-stakeholder approach has been implement to improve teenagers’ access to sexual and reproductive health rights services
The stimulus package is part of the state’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan, and is a response to the Covid-19 pandemic
Climate activist Lisakhanya Mathiso, 18, from Tafesig uses dance to educate people in her community about the climate crisis
Inspired by a school project, 17-year-old Sera Farista has taken a stand against climate change
The system needs to be more open and inclusive to give young people, civil society, the private sector, academia, and others a spot at the table
But inequality on the continent will continue to grow unless disparities in the right to education are ended
To turn SA’s youth unemployment crisis around, we need to believe in young people’s potential, but also come up with a concrete, inclusive action plan
A few of South Africa’s unemployed youth share their stories
Protest music and protest culture is part of being black, and of being human. Several musicians are passing this practice on to the next generation
The youth are a national asset because they can help alter the course of Zambia’s future
Afraid, Ntokozweni villagers looked over the hills at people burying loved ones ‘but now they are free’
Complaining about ‘reverse racism’ and BEE serves no one. South Africa’s white youth should focus on entrepreneurship instead
‘The generation of 1976 did not fight to end the injustices of their time only for there to be the dawn of a climate apartheid’
The moral dilemma of privilege has led to nihilism as well as unprecedented social justice action
The pandemic has demonstrated that, when it’s a matter of life and death, we can manage dramatic U-turns in public policy. We must take similarly decisive action now on climate change, rather than later regretting it
The shake-up has seen young, feminist and anti-neoliberal voices emerge from the 15 May general election
Can Nigeria’s #EndSars protests restructure electoral politics? Or will they simply become a dramatic, but ineffective interlude, to the status quo?
Women in the personal services sector and young people have been hard hit by the pandemic in terms of employment, but they struggled even before Covid-19
Shaping the frontal cortex as a critical youth development strategy
COMMENT: The protests against the Ugandan president’s 35-year rule are being led by the youth. But they cannot do it alone
Laws on access to sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and age of consent to sexual activity in many countries do not adequately serve the needs of young people and even when they are progressive, they are often not well implemented
Before Nzimande or anyone in government thinks of telling young people to “choose” TVET colleges again, they need to fix this sector
A decade of reconstruction looms post-Covid. This is our chance to restructure the economy to build a more inclusive one
The economy as a whole will benefit from investment in young entrepreneurs
Young people answered the call to service during this crisis and made a significant contribution during lockdown, they deserve to be recognised as changemakers
After learning from Côte D’Ivoire’s ASEC Mimosas, the Paradou AC academy is revolutionising football in Algeria — and doing it barefoot
The spirit of defiance against injustice that was captured by the Soweto Uprisings in 1976 can still be felt among young people in post-apartheid South Africa
Young people are a critical demographic in South Africa, but their influence on national politics in the past two decades has been limited