Today is Youth day, a day of commemoration of the student uprising in the Soweto riots in 1976. A day that changed the course of our lives, no matter which side you came from. Today’s celebration of Youth Day is a tribute to the energy, the passion, the drive, the enthusiasm, the innovation, the commitment and the bravery that  young people in our midst display with such maturity. We place the future of the country, and indeed the World, in their capable hands.  I salute them.