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‘Young people have found a new way to participate in politics’

Rise Mzansi's Youth Mobilisation Coordinator, Lawrence Manaka, says he believes that young people have not completely opted out of politics, but rather out of the political party system. Manaka's remarks come as South Africa gears up for the 2024 national elections, which come amid concerns that 14 million young South Africans eligible to vote did not register to vote in the 2021 local government polls. Young people make up 35% of the country's population and political commentators have insinuated that […]

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Ramaphosa to further engage Zelensky and Putin

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa continues to maintain that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine should be settled through negotiation and diplomatic means. In his weekly newsletter, Ramaphosa says the presidents of the two warring countries, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin have agreed to further engagements. Ramaphosa and several African heads of state descended on the two countries in a bid to facilitate peace talks in the 16-month-long conflict. The President says the conflict has caused instability, precipitated a […]

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Govt urged to pay attention to needs of youth to avoid another 1976 uprising

Today South Africa commemorates Youth Day, in honour of thousands of black students in Soweto who took to the streets this day in 1976 in protest against the apartheid government’s Bantu education system, which they slated as unjust and inferior compared to that of their white counterparts. The decree that Afrikaans had to be used as a medium of instruction in township schools was at the core of the protest. More than 500 of the students were killed in the […]

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OPINION | Restoring the dignity of June 16, 1976

Nothing amazes me more than seeing people who have gone through a life-changing experience from which they logically ought to be the primary source to tell all about it, finding themselves reduced to being students who ought to be taught how it was like to be oppressed. More bewildering is seeing authors of oppression and descendant beneficiaries going an extra mile to teach democracy to those they were active in denying. It is happening all the time. It is as […]

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ANC Mpumalanga leaders accused of sexually exploiting young comrades

ANC Youth League (ANCYL) member in Mpumalanga, Sizwe Nyambi, had social media users startled this week following his loaded allegations of the sexual exploitation of comrades. Nyambi went viral after calling out leaders of the Mpumalanga ANC for allegedly coercing sexual favours from young male members in exchange for job and business opportunities. Some social media users have backed the allegations. They say young comrades in Mpumalanga are often pressured into sleeping with leaders for the sake of upward mobility. […]

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I feel like I am losing my son, sobs a disillusioned Pretoria mom

A self-employed mother from Winterveld, in Pretoria, is appealing for help as she fears her son might end up either doing drugs or on the wrong side of the law following an arrest over a charge she rejects as false. Monica Maseko and her son, Siphesihle, were arrested in March last year and charged with common assault. They are accused of beating up a neighbour's son, Keorapetse Monnakgotla (27), who was allegedly part of a group of boys who broke […]

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Modern slavery is real, young people urged to verify shady online job offers

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) has cautioned young job seekers against fraudsters who may be looking to traffick them online. The appeal follows several reports of South Africans falling victim to job scams overseas. In most of these cases, the said young people are usually applying for jobs to teach English in Asian countries.DIRCO's spokesperson, Clayson Monyela, says a young woman from Limpopo recently fell victim to a job scam to teach English in Thailand.He's urged job […]

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NHI gets the nod from National Assembly, while some raise eyebrows

There's been mixed reactions to the passing of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill. The NHI, which was first introduced in 2015 by the Portfolio Committee on Health, finally got the nod from the National Assembly yesterday. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has welcomed the lawmakers' move. The labour federation is among the interested parties who have supported the bill, which seeks to accelerate unified access to healthcare for all South Africans. It will now be taken […]

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Mkhwebane wants probe into her competence scrapped, says it’s irrevocably tainted

Suspended Public Protector, advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, wants Parliament's Section 194 inquiry into her fitness to hold office scrapped. She says it has been irrevocably tainted by attempts to bribe her. Alternatively, the suspended public protector says the committee's chairperson should recuse himself. The advocate's bid to have the Section 194 Inquiry into her fitness to hold office scrapped is not a first. The full bench of the Western Cape High Court dismissed her bid to have it declared unlawful and […]

todayJune 13, 2023 219