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Youth unemployment crisis a ‘moral emergency’: Mashatile | SA News

Forty-nine years after the youth of 1976 fought against the apartheid regime, the young people of today face a starkly different but equally urgent crisis: crippling unemployment. Deputy President Paul Mashatile labelled the situation a ‘moral emergency’, equating the historical fight for quality education with the modern struggle for economic access.

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