As South Africa celebrates Youth Day, President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on the country’s youth to be agents of change.
Interacting with youth during a virtual panel discussion, Ramaphosa said there has to be life after Covid-19 and challenged the youth of South Africa to come forward and help bring about change in the economy.
“I'm throwing a challenge to young people: post-Covid-19 is a new platform. We need to set up different ways of running our economy, ownership and managing our economy and even the production of our economy,” Ramaphosa said. “As young people we need to ask ourselves, are we prepared to continue living with the inequality that has persisted forever and a day?“I believe 2020 has ushered in that moment as young people. I want young people to contribute their ideas. I am convinced we have to create a new economy. We have to have new sectors and sub-sectors in a variety of ways. The creative industries must explode,” Ramaphosa said.
“You are the ones who must be innovative, who must create things. What we need to do as a government is support you,” Ramaphosa said.
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