While campaigning before the general elections, the president spoke to many young people expressing despondency over the lack of employment.
Young people in South Africa are not the ”lost generation”, as some would have it, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday.
“Being able to reach your potential starts with education. Government is on a path to revitalise the economy at a time of great technological advances. Young people need tools for these advances. We are thus prioritising science, technology, arts, and mathematics in our education system,” he said. Ramaphosa said South Africa’s youth had always been the “vanguard” of the struggle to defeat apartheid. The direct actions and “militancy” of the youth of 1976 contributed to ”liberation and ensured we could sit here today”, he said.
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