Lehlohonolo Mofokeng, a pupil from AB Phokompe Secondary School, debating why pupils should be expelled from school if found guilty of drug or alcohol abuse in spirit of Youth Day last year.
Thursday, 16 June is another public holiday yes, but why?
According to the South African government, “In 1975 protests started in African schools after a directive from the then Bantu Education Department that Afrikaans had to be used on an equal basis with English as a language of instruction in secondary schools. The uprisings tragically ended with hundreds of young people killed by the apartheid government when they protested against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction.
Some of the Youth Day events happening in Randfontein today are:
For more than 4 and a half years, Clinton Botha was a journalist at Roodepoort Record. His articles were regularly published in the Northside Chronicle now known as the Roodepoort Northsider. Clinton is also the editor of Randfontein Herald since July 2020. As a sports fanatic he wormed his way into various "beats - as the media would know it - and admits openly that his big love always have something to do with a scoreboard, crowds and usually a ball that hops.
