A quarter of South Africans are unemployed – but this social entrepreneur has a plan

Mar 31, 2016

Students use computers to study at Elswood Secondary School in Cape Town November 7, 2013.

South Africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world Image: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

Samuel Brown

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