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Vuka Africa Youth Hub is a non-profit headquartered in South Africa with operations in Zimbabwe.

We equip, empower, and elevate African youth through programmes in digital skills, sport, health, and work-readiness.

12/08/2026

Today, 12 August, is International Youth Day. The United Nations' theme for 2026 is From Clicks to Progress: Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable Development, and it reflects exactly what we see through our EmpowerLab and EmpowerYouth programmes at the Empowerment Hub in Chitungwiza.

Thelma joined the Hub in May 2025 for basic digital skills training, then continued on to CV writing and interview etiquette workshops. Within four months, she was promoted to Pharmacy Manager, a role that relies on the same digital systems she first learned to use with us.

Digital access on its own does not change a young person's life. What changes it is the pathway that follows. That is what we build.

Read more on our blog today, and if your organisation works in digital inclusion, skills training or youth employment and would like to partner with us, get in touch. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/click-progress-here-what-comes-after-vuka-africa-youth-hub-khmpf

11/08/2026

On 8 August, Vuka Africa partnered with SAFE Hub for a Women's Day event in Tembisa. Girls under 12 and under 16 took part in netball and soccer matches, followed by mentorship sessions and career guidance discussions.

Attendance and engagement exceeded what we had planned for, and it was a genuinely special day to be part of. Thank you to Safe-Hub Tembisa and to every girl who showed up.

We have written more about why we think sport and mentorship belong together on our blog this week. If your organisation works in youth development or sport for social change and you would like to collaborate, please get in touch.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-we-saw-when-girls-took-over-pitch-tembisa-0zxrf

09/08/2026

Today, 9 August, marks the Platinum Jubilee of the 1956 Women's March, seventy years since more than 20,000 women walked to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against the pass laws.

The women who marched that day came from every community and background in the country. After delivering their petitions, they stood in silence for thirty minutes before breaking into song: Wathint'Abafazi Wathint'imbokodo now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock. Those words have been sung at every Women's Day commemoration since.

Happy Women's Day to every woman carrying that spirit forward, including the young women and LGBTQI youth in our Survivor Pathways Programme, survivors of gender based violence who are turning survival into new careers, qualifications, and futures. We celebrate you today, and every day.

Support is always available. If you or someone close to you needs it, save this number: GBV Command Centre: 0800 428 428 (operating around the clock)

08/08/2026

Today is International Safe Sport Day

This year, we're celebrating every child who shows up to play. Not just the athletes, but the young ball squad members, the kids learning to ref, the little ones cheering from the sidelines. Every child means EVERY child, and every one of them deserves to feel safe.

At our EmpowerSports sessions, keeping children safe isn't an afterthought; it's part of how we train our coaches and run our activities every single day.

We've already taken the Safe Sport Pledge. Today, we're asking you to join us: make the commitment to keep every child safe in sport, every day, and share it with your community. 💙

Take the pledge here: https://lnkd.in/emhfq2rk
Follow and share: facebook.com/SafeinSports

04/08/2026

Women's Month is underway. This year marks the Platinum Jubilee, 70 years since more than 20,000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 9 August 1956, and the national theme for 2026 is Empowered Women, Empower Nations.

It is a fitting theme for the work we do. Our Survivor Pathways Programme partners with community-based organisations, mobilisers, shelters, Thuthuzela Care Centres and GBV response services across Alexandra, Tembisa, Soweto, Yeoville, Hillbrow, Winterveld, Soshanguve, Mabopane and Mamelodi, so that young women and LGBTQI youth affected by gender based violence have a clear route from crisis support into employment, education and training.

We have written more about why this onward pathway matters on our blog this week. If your organisation works in GBV response, employment placement or youth development and you would like to collaborate this month, please get in touch.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-empowered-women-empower-nations-means-beyond-vyqpf

28/07/2026

On 30 July, the world marks World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. This year's UNODC theme, "Leave No Child Behind in the Fight Against Human Trafficking," speaks directly to the communities we work in.

Trafficking does not happen in isolation. It takes root where there is vulnerability, and in South Africa that vulnerability is often tied to gender-based violence and economic exclusion, the same conditions our Survivor Pathways programme was built to address. Young people without stable income, without support networks, or without a safe home are far more likely to be targeted.

This week, we are using our platform to raise awareness, not to sell a single moment of attention, but to make sure the people who follow us know the warning signs, know where to turn, and know that support exists.

If you work with a GBV response organisation and want to collaborate on awareness efforts, please get in touch.

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18/07/2026

67 minutes. Two communities. One mission. 💛

This Mandela Day, our Vuka Africa team was on the ground in Tembisa and Winterveld, offering peer mentorship and GBV awareness campaigns in the communities we call home.

Madiba said it is in our hands to make a difference. Today our hands were busy: mentors sitting with young people, real conversations about gender based violence, and communities coming together to say enough.

Because every young person who is a victim, survivor of, or affected by GBV deserves a pathway from safety to a sustainable livelihood. That is what we do, on Mandela Day and every other day.

Thank you to everyone in Tembisa and Winterveld who opened their doors and their hearts today. 🙌

13/07/2026

Five days to go. This is how Vuka Africa is marking Mandela Day.

On 18 July, our hub in Chitungwiza will open for a full day of service. Young people will move through skills workshops, CV and interview coaching, health and wellbeing check-ins, and mentoring sessions, and we want you standing alongside them.

Three ways to give your 67 minutes this Mandela Day:
Volunteer your skills for the day; whatever they are, we will find a young person who needs them.
Sponsor a workshop, a meal or the materials that make the day possible.
Show up on the day and lend a hand at the hub.

Spaces are limited and filling up.

Register today.Find out how at https://vukaafrica.org/

09/07/2026

Dignity is not something to be earned. Nelson Mandela insisted it belongs to everyone.

That is the thinking behind Survivor Pathways: trauma-informed, survivor-centred, and built on one rule: safety, choice and confidentiality guide every decision.

No one is turned away.If you work with a young person who needs this support, our referral pathway is open.

03/07/2026

In May 2025, Thelma joined our ZimDev Empowerment Hub in Chitungwiza at the age of 29. She came for basic digital skills. She stayed for CV writing and interview coaching. And then, four months later, she was promoted to Pharmacy Manager at Boetis Pharmacy Chain.

Her own words say it better than we ever could:"The system at Boetis uses a computerised POS, and on a day-to-day basis my learnings helped me grasp concepts easily, which is why I was promoted. I am forever grateful for a stepping stone into my career."

Thelma’s story is not exceptional. It is exactly what we built the Empowerment Hub to make possible, for every young person who walks through our doors.

This Mandela Month, you can be that stepping stone. Give 67 minutes. Help us reach the next Thelma.

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