Mashatile set to deliver keynote address at official Youth Day commemoration in NW
June 16 is declared a National Youth Day due to the active role and participation of young people in the liberation struggle, specifically during the 1979 student uprising.
FILE: Deputy President of South Africa Paul Mashatile. Picture: X/PresidencyZA
JOHANNESBURG - Deputy President Paul Mashatile is set to deliver the keynote address at Monday's official Youth Day commemoration in the North West.
June 16 is declared a National Youth Day due to the active role and participation of young people in the liberation struggle, specifically during the 1979 student uprising.
The commemorative events in 2025 are held under the theme, "Skills for the Changing World – Empowering Youth for Meaningful Economic Participation".
Other political parties are expected to commemorate the day.
During 2025’s Youth Day official commemorative event, Mashatile will be accompanied by various government officials, including the Minister of Sports and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, the Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women and Youth, Sindisiwe Chikunga, and the Premier of the North West, Lazarus Mokgosi.
Various political parties are also commemorating the day across the country, including ActionSA in Johannesburg, where the party is holding a Youth Day event at the Hector Peterson Memorial in Soweto.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is leading a Youth Day rally in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, and on Sunday, the party held an unveiling ceremony for the late Mlungisi Madonsela, a university student and EFF activist who was fatally shot in 2019 after an altercation with private security outside the Durban University of Technology campus.
Meanwhile, the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party is officially launching the party's Youth League in Clermont, KZN, with its president, Jacob Zuma, delivering a keynote address.