THE producers of the long-running Judge for Yourself constitutional talk show on the ENCA channel excelled by inviting three young women to discuss the lot of the youth of the country in the run up to Youth Day. Their anger was palpable, their disappointment with the current state of affairs in SA, touching.They were empathetically probed on what lay below the recent upsurge in activism among students. One represented Afriforum, one the Wits Student Representatives Council and one the #FeesmustFall movement. A lively debate ensued during which many viewers may have spluttered into their sundowner sherry as whiteness, racism, the Constitution and the role of identity among "born-free" youth of SA received an airing. Never directly under the yoke of apartheid, they all live in its dark and abiding shadow. Why?It is really quite remarkable that 22 years (think Germany and Japan in 1967) into the new democratic order, which is expressly aimed at respecting human dignity, advancing the a...
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