The DCF’s work readiness programme to benefit final year students
Due to a shortage of skills and the high youth unemployment rate in South Africa, many tertiary graduates struggle to find employment opportunities. To...
The EFFSC’s Inam Kula and Mbali Zondo On Being Women In...
The newly unveiled Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) will soon be taking up their positions. FATIMA MOOSA and SHAAZIA EBRAHIM spoke to incoming...
SRC elections in the time of COVID-19
Many students at South African universities and colleges were forced to adjust to online learning due to COVID-19 conditions. Now another university process has...
Extract: Nation on the Couch
Professor Wahbie Long’s Nation on the Couch explores life in our beloved country through the lens of psychoanalysis. By focusing on the idea of...
Part One: Illustrators and Animators on how they got into the...
One of the main attractions at Comic Con Africa was the Artists Alley where animators, illustrators and comic book artists had a chance to...
Students are walking from KZN to Gauteng for higher education
In 2019, Walk4Access, a group of people from the University of Pretoria (UP) walked from Cape Town to Pretoria. Their aim was to raise...
Five human rights trends in SA: Activists fight back as COVID-19...
On Human Rights Day, global civil society alliance CIVICUS outlines five human rights trends in South Africa that look set to continue in 2021.
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What does the National Youth Development Agency do?
On November 10, president Cyril Ramaphosa appointed a new board for the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA). Asanda Luwaca was also appointed as the...
Students Vow To Commit To Community Work After Successful Food Drive
Boston Media House students in Johannesburg who started a successful food donation campaign for Mandela month as part of their academic project say they...
Heritage Day- What heritage are we celebrating? Or are we coerced...
by Thand’Olwethu Dlanga
When last he addressed the nation President Cyril Ramaphosa was upbeat. In addition to announcing a loosening of the national lockdown, he...
Street traders in South Africa play a vital role: how their...
The South African informal economy accounts for 17% of employment. Street trading is the largest. Street traders are scattered around the many corners of...
Q&A: Kagiso Trust on the triumph of grade 12 learners in...
The Kagiso Trust is a self-funded South African development agency. This year, the trust is celebrating the performance of grade 12s in schools that...
For Colored Girls explores what it means to be a black...
Ntozake Shange’s music-drama, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, is a work of poetry, music and improvisational dance...
Where Young People Stay In South Africa – StatsSA
South Africa’s population has hit 58.78 million people, according to the Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) 2019 mid-year population estimates (MYPE) report released on...
#BeTheDrivingForce Chit Chat Club: Election Season now available to stream
In May 2021, The Daily Vox and Youth Capital launched the #BeTheDrivingForce series for Youth Month. The series explored the different challenges facing young...
Listen to the Voices of the Youth
Accountability Lab South Africa along with media partner The Daily Vox present Accountability Lab South Africa’s Voices of the Youth series. Along with the...
Ari Sitas: “June 1976 was a point of no return”
ARI SITAS, sociology professor at UCT, reflects on the events of June 1976 and what it meant to be a young person then.
I was...
Ndenze ntoni na?: A poem by Xolani Henry Shezi
Xolani Henry Shezi (also known by his stage name Xolani Shezzi), an emerging poet from Mandeni, KwaZulu-Natal uses poetry as a healing mechanism to...
How can South African youth rewrite Freedom Day in 2023?
South African youth are finding themselves in the middle of a storm. They are grappled by socioeconomic and socio-political challenges. These are eroding the...
UMLILO / THE FIRE: a film by Eh!woza
Umlilo was produced by high-school learners (grade 9 and 10) during Eh!woza’s Learner Doccies programme. The film looks at residents’ reflections on and experience...
