Youth and Education

The Youth Express train takes off on 1 June from Johannesburg's Park station, carrying on board an energised team of people passionate about taking youth development further than it has gone before.
• Youth Month focus on empowerment

South Africa's "born frees" - a nickname for those born in the year of the country's first free elections - turn 18 this year, coming of age at the same time as a democratic SA. While they acknowledge the importance of remembering the struggle, the future is where their focus lies.

South Africa’s Lwazi Gqira, 18, is swinging his way to golfing success after recently competing in his first major championship in Poland.
• Hi-tech help for future sports stars

Young South Africans say they will be celebrating this year's Youth Day by standing up and confronting the challenges they face - just like their compatriots did in 1976.

Visitors can relive South Africa's turbulent history by walking the route that protesting Soweto school students took on 16 June 1976 - the day that marked the beginning of the end for the apartheid regime. The entire path has been declared a heritage trail.

Young South Africans say they will be celebrating this year’s Youth Day - a public holiday celebrated in South Africa every year on 16 June, paying tribute to the hundreds of students who lost their lives in Soweto in 1976 - by standing up and confronting the challenges they face, just like their compatriots did 35 years ago.
• Youth month marked in SA

Women’s rights in South Africa will take a great stride forward when a national alliance of women’s organisations presents the country’s first shadow report in 12 years on the status of women in the country.

South African production Life, Above All, about a young girl whose family is deeply affected by Aids, was the talk of the 2010 Cannes Festival after receiving a 10-minute standing ovation at its world premiere there on 18 May.
• South African film wins at Tribeca

The South African government is to table proposals to subsidise the cost of hiring young workers to encourage companies to take on inexperienced staff, as the country focuses on job creation targeting youngsters.

The educational power of the board game is being unleashed thanks to nifty creations by Afro Games – a one-man company that tackles pertinent social issues using customised games.