Tuesday 27 April 2010 marks Freedom Day in South Africa and the 16th anniversary of the first Democratic Election for all South Africans. It is a day where South Africans should consider the sacrifices that were made to achieve freedom in South Africa and to value freedom accordingly. The celebration of freedom for students at [...]

Julius Malema is apparently leaving today for a tour of Venezuela, where he will meet President Hugo Chavez and discuss that country’s programme of nationalisation. His trip follows a similar excursion to Zimbabwe, where he met with Robert Mugabe and romanticised his policies, the self same policies that have resulted in the systematic destruction of [...]

On Monday 19 April the DA Youth will be running a campaign across 22 campuses nationwide inviting students to sign a petition calling for an increase in the financial aid threshold of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) from R120,000 to R160,000. The current threshold of R120,000 is stifling the creation of real opportunities [...]

The Democratic Alliance Youth leaders of all nine provinces and I will tomorrow evening, 27 March, be switching off our lights in support of Earth Hour 2010 and we urge the youth of South Africa to do the same and join the global fight against climate change. Earth Hour is a World Wide Fund for Nature [...]