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15 Jun 2021 | Making condoms cool during Youth Month

A non-profit organisation with a focus on health issues has called on young hip-hop artist to aid in making condom use cool. Kro Barz has come to the ...

15 Jun 2021 | Ramaphosa: Creating opportunities for youth a govt priority

Ramaphosa used his weekly newsletter on Monday to reflect on the fateful events of June 16, 1976, when the youth of Soweto and other parts of the coun...

15 Jun 2021 | SA students hit hard by COVID-19

Forty-one percent of students were unable to buy their own food after tertiary institutions closed to limit the spread of COVID-19, with 40.1% of yout...

15 Jun 2021 | Student survey: 13 000 youth share their COVID-19 challenges

Blade Nzimande has revealed startling findings following a survey on student difficulties during the COVID-19 lockdown.  Blade Nzimande, the Hig...

15 Jun 2021 | Study Shows TVET Students Suffered Most During Lockdown

A study done by the Human Sciences Research Council showed that TVET College students suffered immensely when the country was placed under heavy lockd...

15 Jun 2021 | This is how the pandemic has affected the youth and students

WHILE much emphasis has been placed on how Covid-19 would affect the elderly and those with co-morbidities, not much attention was focused on how the ...

14 Jun 2021 | Disturbing that youth are uninformed about June 16, says Cyril Ramaphosa

President Cyril Ramaphosa says it is disturbing that knowledge and awareness about the historic events of June 16 that transpired 45 years ago was dim...

14 Jun 2021 | Govt to launch actions aimed at empowering youth

This week, government is set to launch a range of actions to create opportunities for the youth as the country gears up to celebrate Youth Day on Wedn...

14 Jun 2021 | Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande releases results on the impact of COVID-19 on students

Higher Education and Training Minister Dr. Blade Nzimande releases the results of a study on the impact of COVID-19 on students in the post-school edu...

14 Jun 2021 | Securing a brighter future for youth

“The Presidential Youth Employment Intervention was built on the understanding that to address the youth unemployment crisis requires innovative...