Category Archives: Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League

Abahlali to commemorate Youth Day in Durban & Newcastle

Sunday, 16 June 2019
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Abahlali to commemorate Youth Day in Durban & Newcastle

June 16, is a very significant day in our calendar where we remember those young people who took a stand against the ruthless apartheid regime in 1976. Many people lost their lives in the youth driven insurrection that spread across the country in 1976.

However, today, 25 years after the end of apartheid, most young people still face many of the same challenges that they faced under apartheid. And young people continue to lose their lives in the struggle for dignity, justice and a future. The state and the ruling party both continue to murder impoverished black activists.  Continue reading

Youth Day Drug Awareness & Talents Competition Event

Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement of South Africa Youth League Press Statement

Youth Day Drug Awareness & Talents Competition Event

We as the youth of the South African nation want to live in peace and dignity regardless of colour or race. We want to live in a society where there is free quality education and everyone can develop themselves to their full potential. We want to live in a society where there is work or an income for everyone. We want to live in a society where the social value of urban land is placed before its commercial value and cities are governed and planned democratically. Continue reading

AbM Youth League Youth Day Statement

15 June 2015
Abahlali Youth League press statement on June 16

This year we will use the well celebrated youth month to build our own power from below through the University of Abahlali.

Our grand parents have struggled against colonialism and our parents have struggled against apartheid. Our brothers and sisters of 1976 have also struggle against all forms of discrimination and oppression. Today we wish to salute all their determination for real freedom and real democracy. While they were fighting these battles they also had a responsibility to bring us up. We feel that we have to do the same and not watch them when they have to struggle twice. It is our turn as young people to make sure that we have real democracy and real freedom today. The South African youth of 1976 contributed so dearly and paid a high price for the freedom that we continue to struggle for. Continue reading

Celebrating the Beauty of Our Youth

15 June 2014

Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League Press Statement

 

Celebrating the Beauty of our Youth

HECTOR PETERSON was murdered by the apartheid police on 16 June 1976. He was 13. NQOBILE NZUZA was murdered by the ANC’s police on 30 September 2013. She was 17.

We’ve spent many years in pain and frustration about what happened to HECTOR. We will have to spend many years in pain and frustration about what happened to NQOBILE. We all know that more of us will die in this struggle.

Our youth are serving their life sentences in the shacks or the transit camps. Most of us cannot find work, we cannot study and when we are older we will not be able to get married. We are treated like the rubbish of this society when we should be treated as its promise for the future.

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