News24 Article: ‘I don’t trust any of you’. Joburg’s youth aren’t buying the politics
A hush fell over the conference centre as a teenager rebuked a panel of politicians and civil society leaders who had gathered to debate how to put young people at the centre of urban renewal in Johannesburg. Hope Ramalobela, 18, a student leader from Kensington Secondary School in Johannesburg East, stood up on Monday night […]
Daily Maverick Article: Metro Lives panel explores why Johannesburg’s renewal will fail without its young people
If Johannesburg is to rebuild itself, its young people cannot remain on the sidelines. The city’s renewal depends on treating them not as beneficiaries, but as co-authors of its future, said Matshidiso Lencoasa, a budget analyst at SECTION27. “Johannesburg has these problems, but we also have ideas, we also have solutions. We just need to […]
Business Day Article: Concern over slow rollout of free data for public benefit sites
Communications & digital technologies minister Solly Malatsi has acknowledged the slow pace in ensuring South Africa’s mobile network operators make the digital content of public benefit organisations available data-free but is still confident about meeting a January 2027 deadline. According to the DG Murray Trust, only about 40 out of thousands of public benefit organisations […]