The Rising Stars Generation was founded in 2018 by Prince Motlou and formally established in February 2019. This came
after Prince got bothered by the fact that youth are involved in high-risk behaviours such as drug abuse, negative
mindset, bullying, gangster groups etc. He started by gathering his friends and creating youth forums around the
community to address matters that involves the youth. The youth forums were conducted at Prince’s home weekly and
attendance increased over time. That’s when he started approaching schools around Saulsville for space to
accommodate everyone. Edward Phathudi Comprehensive School allowed him to use their classrooms. During the
weekly meetings, Prince realised the talent that the youth have, then he started creating art groups to reveal and
expose their God given “talents”
Then on 12 August 2020 the organisation was registered with the Department of Social Development as a Non-Profit
Organisation. The organisation is working towards keeping the youth away from engaging in risk behaviours. By
facilitating various activities such as Art, Academics, sports, and community services and discipline camps The
organisation assists youth form disadvantage backgrounds by providing stationery, groceries and toiletries.
Currently the organisation is providing its services to 90 young people. We have realised that most young people love
to be on spotlight especially on social media, Television, stage theatre and other media platforms. This gave us an
advantage to attract as many young people as possible to give them opportunity to reveal their talent as they are
performing Drama theatre, Dance, Singing, Poetry, screen Acting, comedy videos, short films etc… we are using these
activities to shift their focus from negative habits on streets to keep them busy. Also to solve community problems
whereby we could create a drama, poem or a song about drugs, sexual abuse, teenage pregnancy etc.
We perform these activities to schoolchildren at schools bringing powerful message. Young people impacting other
young people. Helping other organisation to bring change in our community such as Cancer awareness, Charity drive,
Motivating school children, volunteering at centres to help school children with homework etc. The work is being done
by the same actors, poets, dancers all these young talents working together to build a strong community because we
are producing a future Leaders, We attend boot Camps (semi-military) that trains leadership skills, discipline,
communication, and solution to social problem.
Our main focus is on smoking issue because many young people are facing dangers of smoking which interferes in with
their health and focus Academically. So, we are educating young people not to start smoking. We strongly motivated
by TOBACCO FREE GENERATION movement from Singapore of which they trained us in 2019 to become Advocates for
us to be able to mobilise our young South Africans to encourage each other not to start smoking. In this way we will
have a non-smoking generation in a future.
In 2022 we developed a program called Discipline Camp is the fastest growing program that is opened up for young
people all over South Africa. The is designed to program is to change the mindset of young people and install discipline
so they can overcome these risky behaviours, disrespecting of parents, bad attitude, smoking, bullying, laziness etc.
Every school holiday break about 300 kids from different provinces come to our camp.