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<span class="WebInstructions">A first-of-its-kind IFT research initiative asked food science professionals to reflect on their professional pathways—how they got to where they are today, what makes their jobs meaningful, and where they hope to be in the future.</span>
Encouraging and providing opportunities for the youth to exercise their rights regarding climate change issues, comes down to education. ACTIVATE! Change Drivers, an NGO with a youth network of 4 500 youth, hosted a Climate Change Imbizo in November, to discuss the Involvement of Youth in Climate Change and Environmental Rights. Organisations participating, included the WWF and Youth@SAIIA. The keynote speaker was NDP 2030 Ambassador and political commentator, Gugu Nonjinge.
The narrative that South Africa’s youth do not care about voting needs to be corrected.
A youth activist has penned an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, calling for competent and experienced civil society members to be included in the Cabinet. Keagen Gertse, who is part of ACTIVATE! Change Drivers’ youth network, urges Government to consider the needs of all citizens, as opposed to the political needs of a few. Gertse quotes President Ramaphosa’s words in 1995 to the Constitutional Assembly: “We must draft a constitution that will fully be legitimate, a constitution that will represent the aspirations of our people.” Gertse does not believe the cur...