Resurgence in Youth Activism Overdue in the Shaping of SA’s Future

Mrs Nomkhitha Mashinini views a collage compiled in honour of her son, Tsietsi Mashinini, one of the leaders of the 1976 Soweto student uprising, in Johannesburg.

The youth of 2026 must mobilise and become politically conscious in the same self-sacrificing spirit of the 1976 generation to ensure their voices are heard in the corridors of power and across society at large, says the writer.