Author: Ariellah Rosenberg

Every year, Youth Day asks South Africa to remember the courage of young people who stood against a system designed to limit their future. The young people of 1976 were not only protesting a language policy. They were rejecting an education system that prepared black children for a life of restricted opportunity. Nearly five decades later, the laws have changed. The language has changed. The promises have changed. But for too many young South Africans, the outcome remains painfully familiar: they are still being educated into exclusion. The crisis is not only unemployment. It is the collapse of the bridge…