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A vexing question: What does it or should it mean to be a young leader in South Africa today?




The South Africa-Washington International Program is helping to inspire, prepare and support South African youth to lead a sustainable democracy with a peaceful and prosperous future for all its citizens.
A vexing question: What does it or should it mean to be a young leader in South Africa today?
"This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease." As it were, Robert Kennedy stated this in a speech delivered at the University of Cape Town, 1966.
The most significant block of youth in the country, which we speak of the very often, are likely to never have read anything written about them in major news forums.
It's not about remembering our heroes as part of our legacy and heritage; it is about remembering their ideals and their magic and making it alive within ourselves. A name does not do to history what the motives for the actions of the agent do.