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  2. Youth unemployment - Wikipedia

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    Starting in the 1970s, youth unemployment has been rising at a steady rate in South Africa. [74] Today, South Africa is ranked as the fourth country with the highest percentage of unemployed youth in the world. As of 2014, 52.6% of the people aged 15–24 actively looking for a job were unemployed. [75]

  3. Economy of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The economy of South Africa is a mixed economy, emerging market, and upper-middle-income economy, one of only eight such countries in Africa. [ 26][ 27][ 28] The economy is the most industrialised, technologically advanced, and diversified in Africa. [ 29] Following 1996, at the end of over twelve years of international sanctions, South Africa ...

  4. South Africa's unemployment is a 'ticking time bomb.' Anger ...

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    Warning of how unemployment threatens the country's stability, the U.N. referred specifically to a week in 2021 when riots and looting left more than 350 people dead in South Africa, the worst ...

  5. Crime in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2022. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 41 per 100,000 in 2021 after a brief drop in 2020.

  6. Pressure mounts on South Africa's ruling party as ... - AOL

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    South Africa's unemployment rate, already the highest in the world, rose to 32.1% in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to official government figures released on Tuesday. The Quarterly Labor ...

  7. Wealth inequality in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    In South Africa, this idea is known as the first (capitalist, high-profit industries) and second (underdeveloped) economies. [4] The first economy contributes to the majority of South Africa's wealth and is integrated within the world economy. The second economy consists of low-skilled and outdated jobs.

  8. South African energy crisis - Wikipedia

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    South Africa's energy crisis or load shedding is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months of 2007 towards the end of Thabo Mbeki 's second term as president, and continues to the present. [ 1][ 2] The South African government-owned national power utility, and primary power generator ...

  9. Inequality in post-apartheid South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Post-apartheid South Africa struggles to correct the social inequalities created by decades of apartheid. [ 1] White nepotism remains a considerable obstacle to economic gain and political influence for Black South Africans. [ 4][ 5] Despite a growing gross domestic product, indices for poverty, unemployment, income inequality, life expectancy ...