“We know better and thus MUST DO BETTER, BE BETTER, DEMAND BETTER, BRING SOLUTIONS AND BE FEARLESS IN THE PURSUIT OF EQUALITY & JUSTICE!!! We have both an individual and collective responsibility to fight against inequality and injustice and to break down systemic inequality, femicide, GBV, racism and the many other ills we face in 2020, we need to build a new, conscious of where we have come from, understanding the pain and struggle of the past but the reality of where we are focussed on fighting for a future for all!!!!” –  Catherine Constantinides

Today is Youth Day here in South Africa – a day that honours the youth of 1976 who fought against the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools – and I reflect on the kind of South African I need to be to create the South Africa of our dream. Thanks to the youth of 1976 for their sacrifice – I will honour all of you by living in service of South Africa and the world.