Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has paid tribute to the youth of 1976 who fought against the apartheid system and also urged today’s youth to rise to the occasion and fight against the “unseen enemy” — Covid-19.
Skateboarder in Maboneng, Johannesburg on Youth Day. June 16 is a public holiday in SA commemorating the 1976 Soweto uprising.
“Today, our youth must once again fight for their lives, their livelihoods and their freedom. We too have lost young soldiers in the fight. Since the advent of the pandemic on our shores, we have lost 123 fellow South Africans who were 39 years old or younger, with 29 of those under the age of 30,” he said.
“Today, as a nation, as humanity, we face an unseen enemy — an enemy that knows no race, no religion, no border, no government, no king, no peasant. It only knows human, and how to get from one to the next one.” “Like the youth of 1976, it takes consciousness, discipline, co-operation and courage to turn the tide against this invisible enemy.
“The socio-economic effects are being felt in grim ways, like when we see gender-based violence or alcoholism and trauma.
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