OPINIONISTA: Do young people bring a real difference to our politics other than their age? By Nkateko Mabasa Nkateko_Azania
What keeps me awake at night –metaphorically – is for how long young people in this country can be honest with themselves and about themselves.
Young people’s shared experiences of continued inequalities and the failed promises of democracy have fostered solidarities that led to the #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall and Rape Culture protests within institutions of higher learning. However, at the same time, we can be so engrossed in our painful experiences, that we are not able to see beyond generational suffering that has visited our parents and their parents and now us.
It was political parties which also brought some divisions within the #FeesMustFall movement when they realised an opportunity to co-opt some students who belonged to their campus societies. They sought to make the movement their own and take credit for the victories that students had achieved.
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