50 years ago today, when Black schoolchildren protested the imposition of Afrikaans as the language of instruction, the state opened fire. Today, the problems facing South Africa’s youth are still defined by race, writes Mlondi Mveli Mdluli.
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Black African youth face unemployment rates more than 4x those of their white counterparts - a continuation of apartheid’s structural logic by other means