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While aggregate joblessness was historically high before 1994, the rate of young people locked out of the economy has surged to unprecedented levels, defining this generation's struggle
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

Youth Day at 50: The new struggle is the fight for a future

Youth Day honours the young people who rose up in Soweto in 1976 — students who paid with their lives to resist an education system deliberately engineered to diminish them.…

  • Linda Meyer
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