YOUTH MONTH
The Great Brak River Youth Café celebrated Youth Month during June, and with that hosted many great events to celebrate the Youth in our community. The theme for Youth Month this year was Youth Arise, and arise they did – from our very own intern group that has grown from strength to strength this year, to youth in our community that made their voices heard and took up the space that was there for them.
We had a poetry competition, we celebrated Youth Day with an event on the 15th of June and had a colour run for our community. Our Youth Day event, usually one of the flagship events of our year, commemorates the Soweto Uprising of 1976, and the role youth played on that fateful day. It included musical items, youth testimonies, stage performances and youth debates.
Please read and enjoy the lyrics to a song written and performed by one of the youth in our community, Waltim Jansen, a.k.a Walla-G, named “Staan Op”:
“Ek sien net krake in die mure;
As ek dink aan al die ure
Wat die mense
Swaarkry
Dit kon aners gewees het
As ons kon gekies het
Maar die lewe
Het sy eie way
En kom laat ons praat
En kom laat ons praat
En kom laat ons praat
Oor wat ons kan doen
Want die situasie, breek ons nasie
Staan, staan op
Maak ’n verskil vandag; Maak ’n verskil vandag
In die strate
Van Suid-Afrika
