Free Youth Day MP3s

Sam Kaase
Former SA Youth Choir member, Sam, penned this protest song by pleading with all South Africans to speak out for a better way of life. Patricia de Lille, Helen Zille, Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Bantu Holomisa were so inspired, they added their voices to his recording.
Listen:Insurgence

Kwani Experience
Dropping the price of petrol, and maybe cutting repo and interest rates before 2010 is cool and all, but c'mon politicians how about creating some jobs? Kwani Experience keeps it real by mapping Mzansi's hip inner city pulse with their bewitching 21st century brew of jazz, soul, funk and kwaito-hop.
Listen: I Need Money

Rus Nerwich
Want to make sure you party with a purpose this Youth Day? Give Madiba, Bob Marley and Martin Luther King a shout out on this fabulously funky jazzy-soul rap joint off the sax man's urban pop CD. "Come join me under the Poetree, you can be happy, you can be free!"
Listen: Under the Poetree 

Brown
Expatriate American rapper and social worker gives SA youth the low down on this cautionary tale Off Hangin' in and Hangin. Brown is the artist behind the worthy Brown Foundation - assisting the youth in disadvantaged Cape communities.
Listen: So You Wanna Be a Gangsta 

Van Coke Kartel
Crime, poverty, and the plummeting Rand conspiring to have you feeling like you've got no future this Youth Day? Join Francois Van Coke and gang's rage against the sex, drugs 'n rock and roll star stereotypes on this punked out grunge wail off Waaksaam en Wakker.
Listen: Voor Ons Stof Word

Marcia Moon 
Passed your matric but still scared you won't find work unless you continue your studies? Take comfort in this breezy second single off Marcia's debut album, A Gradual Awakening, which channels fans of Neko Case, Natalie Merchant and Josie Field's beatific folk rock craft.
Listen: Fear & Possibility of Growth