The Jet Set BreakfastSA youth not apathetic but no longer believe elections are best path to change GUEST: Mbali Ntuli (35), CEO and founder of the Ground Work Collective, a community development initiative. One of the organisation’s focus areas is encouraging democratic participation. Instudio “Young people… are very political in some cases, [just] not party political. We have protests every single day, but you also see a lot of young people getting involved in communities, doing community work… where they feel t
GUEST: Mbali Ntuli (35), CEO and founder of the Ground Work Collective, a community development initiative. One of the organisation’s focus areas is encouraging democratic participation.
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“Young people… are very political in some cases, [just] not party political. We have protests every single day, but you also see a lot of young people getting involved in communities, doing community work… where they feel that they have some sort of agency and power,”
Your average ‘Gen Z-er’ has few memories of a politically functional South Africa — if any. It’s no wonder that this demographic has little taste for party politics and elections. However, it would be a mistake to assume that this makes them apathetic about the future of this country.
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