Beyond the bootstrap narrative: Reframing youth entrepreneurship in SA as a social justice imperative
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Gugu Nonjinge
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Daily MaverickBeyond the bootstrap narrative: Reframing youth entrepreneurship in SA as a social justice imperativedailymaverick.co.zaThe young people of South Africa are not asking to be rescued; they are asking for a fair system. Those are not the same demand. Confusing them has already cost South Africa three decades. The task ahead is not to produce more stories of resilience in the face of exclusion, but to build an economy in which resilience is no longer a prerequisite for opportunity.
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