Speech
The Born Free Generation. –Dani Beleli
Good afternoon Mr Tennant and fellow students.
We live in an age of worshiping the newest apps, following the latest tweets and checking the most recent social media crazes, where E and MTV is more important than the daily news. Our ‘Born Free’s’ or otherwise known as “The Me Me Me Generation”, are driven by their own self wealth and material well being. Apparently, this is a generation that is representing the free adolescence. The youth has not yet been hit by hard times; it appears that it is a new nation that will lead us to success. However, is this the real case? An article titled “Born free or free fall?” in the ‘City Press’, written by Dion Chang, states, “In South Africa, many young people do not have the support systems all children should have growing up.” He goes into detail about what is happening to the youth in South Africa today and speaks about the ‘Born Free Generation’ and the path that they are following. Agreeing with Chang on the points that have been mentioned, he started off with the topic of “broken family syndrome”. Studies presented, show that ‘approximately 35% of children in South Africa live in a household with no employed family members’. Some may view this as the faults of the previous generation in not guiding the Born Frees and giving them the correct paths and examples to follow from. However, others might be putting this down to the current economic struggle.
In my opinion the youth are not forgetting about South Africa’s History but are merely choosing to build our own foundation within the new age. In the previous apartheid government, life growing up was very different. South Africa was run under F.W De Klerk and the National Party (NP). The youth then had a different view on the country. They grew up in a fearful and cautious environment ruled by Whites and the Blacks did not have the upper hand.
As the ‘Born Free Generation’ reaches their time to enter the real world, they are
Good afternoon Mr Tennant and fellow students.
We live in an age of worshiping the newest apps, following the latest tweets and checking the most recent social media crazes, where E and MTV is more important than the daily news. Our ‘Born Free’s’ or otherwise known as “The Me Me Me Generation”, are driven by their own self wealth and material well being. Apparently, this is a generation that is representing the free adolescence. The youth has not yet been hit by hard times; it appears that it is a new nation that will lead us to success. However, is this the real case? An article titled “Born free or free fall?” in the ‘City Press’, written by Dion Chang, states, “In South Africa, many young people do not have the support systems all children should have growing up.” He goes into detail about what is happening to the youth in South Africa today and speaks about the ‘Born Free Generation’ and the path that they are following. Agreeing with Chang on the points that have been mentioned, he started off with the topic of “broken family syndrome”. Studies presented, show that ‘approximately 35% of children in South Africa live in a household with no employed family members’. Some may view this as the faults of the previous generation in not guiding the Born Frees and giving them the correct paths and examples to follow from. However, others might be putting this down to the current economic struggle.
In my opinion the youth are not forgetting about South Africa’s History but are merely choosing to build our own foundation within the new age. In the previous apartheid government, life growing up was very different. South Africa was run under F.W De Klerk and the National Party (NP). The youth then had a different view on the country. They grew up in a fearful and cautious environment ruled by Whites and the Blacks did not have the upper hand.
As the ‘Born Free Generation’ reaches their time to enter the real world, they are