16/06/2020
Today we remember the young men and women who were on the frontline of the school boycotts of 16 June 1976
Forty three years ago, thousands of students rose up against oppression. In their school uniforms, their fists in the air, and their faces bright with the fire of resistance, they confronted the heavily armed police singing: “Senzeni na? What have we done?”
The police responded by pulling triggers . Many students were wounded, many lost their lives and many others had to flee the country and go to foreign lands.
Today we salute you: Hector Peterson, Mbuyisa Makhubu, Tsietsi Mashinini and all the youth of 1976, whose sacrifices ensured we could be free today. It is their direct contributions and of successive generations that allow us to sit here today as free men and women.
Young people have been the vanguard of our democratic revolution. It is you, the youth, who have taken up the struggles of a new generation – for economic freedom, for access to land and for access to education.
It is you who are the voice of our national conscience as we build a South Africa free of racism, of sexism, of xenophobia and other forms of discrimination.
It is you, the youth of this country, who remind us that our liberation is not complete as long as millions of our people live in poverty, are jobless and remain on the margins of society. Let us as the youth focus on education to fight against the poverty, joblessness and other things.
During this pandemic majority of the youth is affected as there is lack of adequate social protection. Some of us have been experiencing hardships during this pandemic. Despite of it let's have courage and be positive everything will be alright.
Happy youth month
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