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While it is true that “too many young people struggle to find their first job” (SONA), imposing the primary responsibility on young people to ‘do better’, by completing well-meaning programmes designed by adults who know what is best, absolves institutions of the responsibility to re-think their assumptions, approaches, and programming to more effectively address structural challenges. (Oupa Nkosi)

“Inactive” youth, Sona’s panacea of digital skills and missed creative opportunities

If a commitment to youth-led initiative is to be taken seriously, it is imperative to include youth in decision making on where to direct investment, how to design curricula for skills training, which job markets to prioritise, including those that may not yet exist.

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
Across festivals, indigenous knowledge exchanges, and cross-border tourism, Southern Africans are integrating themselves long before policymakers catch up. Photo: Lake of Stars

How culture, not politics, is quietly uniting Southern Africa

Member States creating a regional identity built from lived experience rather than official agreements

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
Moroccan forces destroy a camp near Western Sahara’s capital in 2019. Photo: File

The last colony: Western Sahara and Africa’s unfinished liberation

A referendum must take place allowing the people of Western Sahara to decide their future freely, to uphold African solidarity, justice, self-determination and dignity

5 min read