The only possibility that exist for young people to leave such a legacy behind is through active participation in the process of transformation in our country. Through the efforts of young people, our dreams of yesterday have become today's reality. So too will our dreams of today come true tomorrow if South Africa can work together with its youth for a better future. There are two paths in history, that of reaction and that of progress. Our youth must make a choice.
Neutrality is impossible.
I urge them to choose the path of progress. When we need doctors, lawyers and other professionals in rural areas, hundreds of thousands of young combatants must seek the honour of being chosen. This is the legacy today's youth must leave behind. It must become common to see every young person with a book under their arm, in a taxi, a bus, a train, because you all want to study, learn and correctly interpret the world in which we live. An uninformed nation has no future.