As kids growing up we enjoyed playing indigenous games such as mumbles', skipping, making wired cars and etc. We used the busy and dusty streets as our playing grounds and our parents could easy know our where about. I spoke to Dalen who enjoy playing in the deep. - The freedom of playing anywhere that today’s children enjoy has caused too many problems in our society such as kids gone missing, drug consumption in neglected areas, etc. I Visited a neglected area where youngsters played and practiced their fishing skills, in a meter-deep river near Johannesburg. They said to me it was save for them to play there.

Freedom Day is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994. Peace, unity, the preservation and the restoration of human dignity hallmarks Freedom Day celebrations on the 27th of April of each year. The road to democracy was a long and difficult one. - Since the arrival of the White man at the Cape in 1652, the indigenous peoples of South Africa came under White control and domination. Soon all peoples of colour were denied the vote and hence a say in the running of the country. South Africa was never truly independent nor democratic. The exclusion of the majority of South Africans from political power was at the centre of the liberation struggle…

If your actions inspire others to dream more learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader; this was said by John Quincy Adams. I visited a radio deejay Abie mchunu and a journalist Elphus Nkosi. - Struggling to find your identity can be one of the major issue in the community, as it leads to low self-esteem, Having Abie on radio who strive to redevelop the youth with his job by doing motivational talks at school, as its one of the adored jobs in south Africa. Lack of visibility in structure that assist the youth, has increase the number of youth who roam around without a purpose, speaking to Elphas the journalist says, most of the youth are influence by the media, the more the h…

Cartoon characters like Popeye spinach to inspire children have their greenies as it contain vitamins and bugs bunny were our super heroes in helping us to eat our food as carrots are good for eyesight. No matter how well our food have been prepared as kids we still preferred to have a little bit of food and then have lots of sweeties cause they fulfilled us as kids, watching adverts that show that sugar gives you energy. - Research shows kids turn up their noses at broccoli but beg for ice cream? It may be genetic. A study done by researchers at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia shows that a gene called TAS2R38 may be responsible for children's aversion to bitter tastes. Ev…

In Johannesburg alone lots of children are born out of marriage, which contributes much in partners not to be committed to raising the children. And in some instances the single parenthood arises from divorce, death of the partner, unplanned or teenage pregnancy. - In most cases Woman are facing the social burden of raising children on their own, mean while man struggling to find a better job to take good care of their families. According to research many children in South Africa have grown up without their fathers. In some parts, many women who are single parents run households because their husbands have gone away to work in towns of countries across the border. Many of the husbands/boy…

Speaking to young boys in freedom Park, South of Johannesburg, whose ambitions are to pursue football as their career on Saturday the 12 of March, Football as a career needs to be natured with enough facilities and resources in townships like Freedom Park and the surrounding areas. - MEC for sports, Arts and culture Mr Lebohang Maile in his statement said: ‘We will continue with our engagements with the relevant stakeholders as part of the objective of competitive sport. We have engaged with the premier soccer league through the Chairman Dr Irvin Khoza and have since agreed that there is a need for us to explore mechanisms for increasing the levels of attendance at PSL Games’, sa…

- I am a young South Africa journalist based in Johannesburg. I joined VoicesofAfrica in March 2011.