Live Mag SA’s digital content creators training programme

Livity

Training the next generation of digital content creators Cape Town and Johannesburg Only 18- to 25-year-olds can apply

Livity Africa is looking for 20 aspirant content creators to join our exciting 4-month training programme on livemag.co.za, based in Joburg and Cape Town.

What the programme is about

This training programme ...

Register to attend VIP Debate Club: An Audience With NSFAS

VIP NSFAS

After a successful trip to the Eastern Cape, VIP is hosting another VIP Debate Club, this time around we’re inviting members of parliament, party representatives and leading political figures to have open and robust conversations with you, yes you! Make your voice heard because it matters. This is your opportunity ...

5 things MPs discussed about young people during the third term

By Sheilan Clarke

There were many interesting events in parliament over the past few months. From discussions about military conscription to Stellenbosch University’s appearance in parliament, here are five youth-related highlights from parliament’s third term.

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Sending SA’s youth to the army

Earlier this year the presidency revealed they were discussing ...

VIP: Audience with the Department of Higher Education and Training

VIP DHET

After a successful trip to the Eastern Cape, VIP is hosting another VIP Debate Club, this time around we’re inviting members of parliament, party representatives and leading political figures to have open and robust conversations with you, yes you! Make your voice heard because it matters.

This is your opportunity ...

Broadband connections for schools

Oversight is a function granted by the Constitution to Parliament to oversee effective management of government action. How it is done in practice is that a parliamentary committee is assigned one department to oversee and often, to get to the nitty gritty, the committee will go on an oversight visit ...

Livity: Parliament Challenge Call Out

VIP Challenge

What is it?

VIP is opening up a crowd-sourced challenge to our community to suggest crucial issues, topics or policy ideas that young South Africa would like to present to parliament, dubbed the Parliament Challenge. The VIP team will work in conjunction with political experts, civil society organisations and MPs ...

Livity Debate: Free Education - Has NSFAS failed us?

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Livity Africa’s VIP Campaign, a youth politics platform that found success engaging young people in Joburg and Cape Town with the national elections in 2014, is now expanding to the Eastern Cape in the lead up to the 2016 local government elections.

The VIP Campaign is a non-partisan movement of ...

Hands off our internet

By: Rofhiwa Maneta

Recently, the Film and Publications Board successfully submitted their draft Online Regulation Policy for consideration by Parliament. The proposed policy aims to regulate content published on the internet to make sure it does not contain hate speech or child pornography. Content uploaded on the net would have ...

Parliament discusses teenage pregnancy and education

By Rofhiwa Maneta

This week marked the midpoint of parliament’s third term. On Wednesday, parliament was host to a number of sittings directly related to young people. The NYDA presented its performance for the first quarter of the financial year to the Portfolio Committee of Monitoring and Evaluation. Similarly, ministers ...

Five female MPs on their passion for politics

By Sheilan Clarke

Statistics show that 35.2% of South African cabinet ministers are women while 41.5% are parliamentarians. This means that of the 54 cabinet ministers, only 19 of them are women and out of a total of 400 parliamentarians, 166 are women. This is according to a United Nations ...