| #YouthMonth: Celebrating SA's youth
South Africa celebrates its youth in June, as it pays homage to the children of 16 June 1976, who protested in the streets of Soweto.
Today’s youth face very different challenges from those of 1976, and the Bizcommunity Youth Month feature explores the contemporary experiences of young people in South Africa and across Africa.
These range from the job-hunt crisis, digital exclusion, unequal schooling, and mental health issues.
Despite these issues, we see that this generation shows profound resilience, grassroots innovation, and cultural influence, with the rise of youth-led businesses, tech solutions, and community projects that are actively bypassing state failures.
Enjoy your reading, and thank you to everyone who participated in the Youth Month feature.
READ ALL #YOUTHMONTH>> | | |  | NANCY DUSANI South Africa’s youth crisis: they complete their academic studies but are unable to find the required workplace experience to graduate... read |
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 | ROBIN FREDERICKS Mosa Hope Mapheto shares how agriculture is helping create opportunities for young people in rural Limpopo... read |
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 | From a shy intern who rarely spoke in meetings to OFYT's creative director, Aakifah Rodrigues reflects on her journey... read |
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 | Fourteen young South Africans have been selected for Netflix’s ScreenCraft Pathways programme... read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Ocean Basket's brand activation leader, Lizandre Keller, believes younger audiences are rewriting the entire playbook for brands... read |
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 | ROBIN FREDERICKS Tshidi Maiyane of BON Hotel Rustenburg shares her rise into hospitality leadership before the age of 30... read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE From sneaker care to culture care, Matthew Tyler, head of marketing at The Lab, believes brands must evolve to stay relevant... read |
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 | NOMPUMELELO ZWANE Matla Media’s Nompumelelo Zwane asks what the role of marketing is in empowering the next generation… read |
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 | Woolworths aims to uplift youth-owned businesses and improve the socio-economic reality of our youth... read |
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 | Keanu Ennes and Jessica Rushmere, young attorneys at Bowmans, reflect on what Youth Day in South Africa means to them... read |
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 | KARABO LEDWABA Prism winner Sebabatso Lemaoana on the future of PR and the meaning of Youth Day... read |
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 | CONFIDENCE TSHILANDE When I was growing up in a village in Limpopo, I watched infrastructure change lives. Roads improved access to services. Water systems brought dignity and livelihood opportunities... read |
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 | As South Africa commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 16 June 1976 Soweto Uprising, ONE Gospel is dedicating Youth Month to honouring the courage of the youth of 1976 while inspiring today’s generation through a special line-up of faith-filled, educational and uplifting programming... read |
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 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Liberty has provided more than 100,000 pairs of shoes to learners... read |
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 | Caxton Media’s most recent national ROOTS consumer survey shows that while young people are highly digital, they move seamlessly between print, digital, social, retail environments and local news... read |
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 | MARILIZE JACOBS & THABANI MNYAKENI June is Youth Month, but it often becomes a discussion about age... read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE South African visual artist and designer Masonwabe Ntloko has built a multidisciplinary practice rooted in preserving isiXhosa language, heritage and identity... read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE T-Squared Clothing founder, Thabiso Mokomele, reflects on his entrepreneurial journey... read |
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 | This Youth Month, the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) sat down with four community media projects – Alex FM, Kgatleng FM, Ulwazi Magazine and Youth Voice Newspaper – to reflect on the aspirations, challenges and voices of young people in their communities... read |
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 | LEMOGANG SEBESHO Small beauty and skincare businesses in small towns matter, writes makeup artist Lemogang Sebesho... read |
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 | NELO SPIES South Africa’s rising youth unemployment demands urgent investment to prepare young people for future work... read |
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 | ROBIN FREDERICKS FedEx says long-term investment in youth development is critical to South Africa's future workforce... read |
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 | The lazy story about young South African consumers is that they are broke, stuck, unemployed and hard to reach. The more useful story is that they are under-capitalised, overly mobile, digitally fluent and actively building their way into adulthood... read |
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 | JESSICA GBEDEMAH They marched for a voice, and we inherited the microphone, writes Jessica Gbedemah… read |
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 | As the youth of today face an unstable economy and a consequent measure of financial uncertainty, they are called to ask themselves what freedom really means... read |
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 | Youth Month highlights the importance of financial literacy for young South Africans... read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Patty Mulauzi, resident colour expert at Kansai Plascon, talks about how youth-led initiatives are transforming South Africa's neighbourhoods... read |
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 | In South Africa, girls as young as 10 are singing lullabies to babies they were never old enough to have. Amnesty International’s latest “Lullaby” campaign confronts the reality of the rise in children raising children... read |
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 | ROBIN FREDERICKS Tsundzukani Hlungwane helping train the next generation of conservation professionals... read |
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 | SHAN RADCLIFFE Candidate attorney Zahra Ally reminds us not to take the hard-won rights of previous generations for granted... read |
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 | Young Bowmans lawyers across Africa share what inspired their careers, crucial laws for youth, missing law school skills, and invaluable advice to their younger selves... read |
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 | EDEN MARAIS Special Effects Media South Africa's Eden Marais explores the role businesses and the creative industry can play in creating meaningful pathways for young talent... read |
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 | KATJA HAMILTON Tshepisho Makofane explains how organisations can build AI-ready teams by balancing technological innovation with critical thinking, emotional intelligence and human-centred leadership... read |
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