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VOX POP: Is Youth Day still relevant to the youth?

Northcliff youths give their opinions on the relevance of the day which marks the anniversary of the Soweto youth uprising in 1976.

June 22, 2024

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Baatseba Nchabeleng : No, because we honestly can’t relate to it anymore. I think that the holiday has been centralised around parties and other events and has been moved away from what actually matters.

With Youth Day upon us, we asked the youth within the community if they felt the goals the memorial holiday hopes to achieve are being met.

This is what they had to say …

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Junior Ngoma : It has become a holiday just like Christmas; it has no value at all; it is just a day for events. People get drunk in school uniform.

Kamohelo Makubire : Personally, I don’t think it is still relevant to us because a lot of us don’t even know what it is about. I didn’t even know it was coming up. — Kamohelo Makubire
: Personally, I don’t think it is still relevant to us because a lot of us don’t even know what it is about. I didn’t even know it was coming up.

Thapelo Motsapi : It doesn’t have value anymore; they have erased everything, Young people don’t even know who Hector Peterson is, and they do not know what June 16 even means – it is basically just a holiday.

Baatseba Nchabeleng : No, because we honestly can’t relate to it anymore. I think that the holiday has been centralised around parties and other events and has been moved away from what actually matters.

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June 22, 2024

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