{"id":7612,"date":"2024-06-19T08:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T06:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2024-06-19T09:28:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T07:28:21","slug":"10-fun-facts-about-south-africas-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/archives\/7612","title":{"rendered":"10 fun facts about South Africa\u2019s youth"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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June is Youth Month in South Africa \u2013 a time when we honour the sacrifices the youth of our country made in the fight for a free and democratic South Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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1. Before it was declared a public holiday and renamed, Youth Day was known as Soweto Day.<\/p>

2. A banned book that was later turned into a Hollywood movie, called A Dry White Season, is inspired by the events of June 16.<\/p>

3. Nkosi Johnson, a young Aids activist who had been denied entry to school due to his condition, was the youngest keynote speaker in history at the International Aids Conference 2000.<\/p>

4. Young South African performer Master KG attained fame when his song, Jerusalema, took the world by storm in 2020.<\/p>

5. Eddie Ndopu is the youngest serving UN Sustainable Development Goal Advocate, sharing the honour with the likes of former First Lady Graca Machel and American actor Forest Whitaker.<\/p>

6. In 2016, Zulaikha Patel made headlines and government reviewed it\u2019s school policies after she protested against policies that discriminated against wearing her hair in an Afro.<\/p>

7. Caster Semenya was only 25 years old when she broke the world record for running 800m in under a minute at the 2016 Olympic Games.<\/p>

8. The percentage of South Africans between 14 and 35 years (classified as youth) is around 66%.<\/p>

9. Western Cape high school classmates Unam Halam and Faith Claasen\u2019s invented the drop saver \u2013 a device that can be attached to a tap to prevent water dripping\/leaking.<\/p>

10. Dr Thakgalo Thibela become Africa\u2019s youngest female medical doctor at only 21 years old.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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June is Youth Month in South Africa \u2013 a time when we honour the sacrifices the youth of our country made in the fight for a free and democratic South Africa. 1. Before it was declared a public holiday and renamed, Youth Day was known as Soweto Day. 2. A banned book that was later […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-7612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun-stuff-afrocentric-10","tag-afrocentric10"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7612"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7688,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions\/7688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}