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South Africa’s youth are trapped in a failing education system | SA News

Youth Empowerment

Phapano Phasha|Published

IN THIS article, I will factually demonstrate that South African youth are not lazy or passive, as Minister Gwede Mantashe suggested recently, but rather how they have been systematically disempowered by design.

How they and their parents are conditioned to celebrate a 35% pass rate, subjected to a curriculum detached from the digital, technical, and entrepreneurial skills required in the 21st century, and then cast into an economy that deems them unemployable.

The ultimate deceit lies in the immunity of this system’s architects: while the children of the elite, including our very leaders, are quietly educated in…

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