South Africa: ANC Leadership Race - No One Is Speaking to the Youth

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No presidential candidate has engaged substantively on the vexing challenges facing youth. All we hear is the same baseless rhetoric and slogans.

Young people continue to be at the periphery of pertinent political discourse and policy engagements. The current campaigns of the ruling party's presidential candidates continue to affirm how little leaders care, and how out of touch they are with the plight and struggles that many young people face in this country.

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