Met die viering van Jeugdag vroe\u00ebr die maand, 44 jaar n\u00e1 16 Junie 1976, kom \u2019n sterk tweevoudige betekenis aan di\u00e9 dag weer na vore. Veral in konteks van die #BlackLivesMatter-veldtog, is di\u00e9 dag van historiese \u00e9n hedendaagse belang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enersyds moet \u2019n mens terugstap op die voetspore wat gelei het tot die geboorte van die demokratiese Suid-Afrika op 27 April 1994, n\u00e1 16 Junie 1976, bepaald een van die belangrikste dae in die geskiedenis van die moderne Suid-Afrika. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op di\u00e9 dag het sowat 20 000 skoolkinders in die strate van Soweto teen die gebruik van Afri- kaans as voertaal in swart skole betoog. Die tol was hoog, nie net wat die lewensverlies onder swart jeugdiges betref nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die geweld het die destydse regering onkant betrap en hy het nie \u2019n benul gehad oor hoe om \u2019n einde daaraan te bring of wat om te doen aan die eintlike probleem nie \u2013 \u2019n wekroep om apartheid te be\u00ebindig. Die vonk was in \u2019n kruit- vat wat sedert die 1960\u2019s \u2013 Sharpe- ville \u2013 gesluimer het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die geweldige lewensverlies en pyn wat veroorsaak is, moet be- paald gedenk word. Andersyds moet erken word dat die nuwe Suid-Afrika nog nie naastenby voldoen aan die opvoedkundige en ekonomiese strewes van jong Suid-Afrikaners nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inteendeel, die jeug in Suid-Afrika is in \u2019n krisis met ho\u00eb werkloosheid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kortweg, 44 jaar n\u00e1 16 Junie 1976 sit ons met nog \u2019n verlore generasie. Gee ons genoeg om vir di\u00e9 generasie? Maak hul lewe en toekoms genoeg saak? En wat s\u00ea dit van \u2019n vakbond soos Sadou, wat elke belangrike maatre\u00ebl om onderrig in Suid-Afrika te verbeter eenvoudig dwarsboom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indien die regering nie die situasie met sterk, geloofwaardige leiding doelgerig probeer besweer nie, is \u2019n uitbarsting soortgelyk aan die een in 1976 nie uitgesluit nie.\u2013 Volksblad<\/span>, 17 Junie<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Met die viering van Jeugdag vroe\u00ebr die maand, 44 jaar n\u00e1 16 Junie 1976, kom \u2019n sterk tweevoudige betekenis aan di\u00e9 dag weer na vore. 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