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Promise unfinished: South Africa’s youth still locked out of the economy 50 years after 1976
Youth Day commemorates the 1976 Soweto uprising, but half a century later South Africa’s young people face a different battle, record unemployment, inequality and a widening gap between education and economic opportunity.
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