ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the circumstances that propelled the country’s youth into the limelight by looking at their participation in politics. This chapter sought to revisit the historical role of the country’s youth in the country’s politics by looking at contemporary youth’s political participation. Round 6 of the Afrobarometer Survey data was employed to measure four modes of political participation to test the hypothesis that contemporary youth are apolitical and apathetic. This chapter concludes that contrary to the conventional wisdom that contemporary South African youth are apolitical and apathetic, they actively engage in the country’s politics.
