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EPISODE · Jun 19, 2026 · 17 MIN

Youth Crisis Deepens as 9.5 Million South Africans Fall Outside Jobs and Education System.

from The Best of POWER Breakfast · host POWER98.7

Thabiso Tema, POWER BREAKFAST host, speaks to Prof Justin Visagie, Associate Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, about how, as South Africa marked Youth Day 2026, a sobering reality emerged from the latest labour market statistics: nearly half of the country’s young people are neither studying, working nor receiving any form of training.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thabiso Tema, POWER BREAKFAST host, speaks to Prof Justin Visagie, Associate Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, about how, as South Africa marked Youth Day 2026, a sobering reality emerged from...

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