Just who are "Youth"?

I am not a lawyer, therefore I do not know where in our laws the word "youth" as a category of our citizenry, is defined. Every political party has a "Youth wing". The Government has economic stimulus packages directed only at the "youth". So one expects that somewhere in our laws that word should be defined.

Interestingly during this Covid19 pandemic I have watched reports from almost every country on earth. Such reports never segregate the citizens of those countries into "youth" and whatever else. I have never heard reference being made to the "youth wing" of the British Labour Party, or of the US Conservatives or Democrats.
In the vast majority of developed countries citizens are just that - citizens. The moment you reach adulthood, you are just a citizen, ready to support your own family. If you closely analyse the regimes of countries that embrace the "youth" mantra, you will see that at the bottom of it all is masked dictatorship. The "youth" label is used to exclude the most productive but economically disadvantaged  swathe of the population. That way, the "youth" are kept placated when once in a while, some crumbs are thrown their way!
Down with "youth"; down with Remote Area Dwellers (RADs). Every  inch of our country is the same. When you call them RADs, what do you mean? Remote from where?

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Our tribes and totems

When the gods genetically re-engineered man, they allocated man to work-groups which we call tribes/nations today. Man was insulated from the political alignments of the gods. Man was just a worker who had to be protected from being swamped by Homo Naledi.Such was the community that lived on and around Mapungubwe hill. Some guards (Balindi/Balete) were placed at the top of the hill, while others were deployed at the bottom. The principal responsibility of the guards on the hill-top was to drop (ku liga) rocks on any enemy who might have breached the lower defences. Consequently the hill-top guards became known as "the droppers" (Baka Chiliga) [Boo Seleka in Setswana] Totems were assigned by the gods mostly to differentiate one work-group from another, but also to give humanity the upper hand in the survival stakes vis-a-vis Homo Naledi. The totems were mostly in the form of some animal that the assigned group was not allowed to eat or even touch. In the human survival sta...
Read more

Strange things in this world

Palestine/Israel:   The architects of Apartheid in South Africa insisted that they were implementing an "n" state solution where "n" is the number of independent states. Their "n" was composed of such Bantustans as BophutaTswana, Transkei, Ciskei, KwaZulu etc. We (rightly) vilified them and fought to destroy their unacceptable designs in our continent. Many people died in the process. Today people are advocating for the creation of another "n" state solution with "n=2" in Palestine/Israel. They call it a 2 state solution. Hendrick Vervoed must be dancing in his grave! Botswana: UDC vs IEC I listened to part of the judgement reading. An interesting point made was that if the UDC were granted the right to observe the voter registration, then other political actors (presumably, BDP, BCP etc) would also be so granted. Now this is strange, because the government insists that ONLY the 94 or so Basarwa who sued and won the right to stay in the...
Read more

What's wrong with Botswana cartoonists?

I mean here is a guy, on the eve of his becoming president, and he comes wearing the most ridiculous looking cap bedecked with medals; an absolute cartoonists paradise, surpassed if at all, only by Jean Bedell Bokasa's coat! And guess what, it's been two months now that he has been making decisions affecting all our lives, and not one cartoon of him wearing that ridiculous hat has appeared in the mainline press. All we get are almost exact replicas of his photoshoots, or selfies as they are called nowadays! Come on guys what do you think we live in - a Banana republic or what?
Read more