South Africa is one of the only countries that takes a day off for Youth Day. Ironic, since most of our youth don't have work to take a day off from.This Youth Month, KG Mokgadi unpacks why young South Africans are walking away from formal politics, and why that's exhaustion, not apathy. MPs get shut down for asking about youth jobs. Employment programmes that actually worked quietly lose their funding. Marches to the president's doorstep go unanswered two years running. And through it all, young people are still told their frustration is just laziness.Featuring 1976 student leader Seth Mazibuko on the battle of the bullet versus the book, and why the youth who got locked out are busy building their own doors.The fight isn't over. It just changed.