South African pupils reflect on Youth, Freedom and Racism Day as a prelude to Tuesday’s International Day of the African Child.
“It’s youth day, it is the day Hector Pieterson and other learners from school didn’t want to do Afrikaans as their first language so they protested about it.”
For Mandisa Sibanda, “There are so many things in life that I want to do and now I’m able to do them because if the youth back then didn’t fight for what we have now, everything would still be the same.”
There are so many things in life that I want to do and now I'm able to do them because if the youth back then didn't fight for what we have now, everything would still be the same.
The International Day of the African Child is a timely occasion for world organizations to address challenges affecting children in Africa, a continent where nearly half the population are under 18 years of age.
