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October 28, 2011

Thousands of Youth Activists March For Jobs in South Africa 
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Economic protests continue across the globe. In South African, some
2,000 Johannesburg youths marched on the Chamber of Mines and Stock
Exchange Thursday to deliver a petition demanding big changes to an
economy still controlled by the white minority. The marchers also called
on President Jacob Zuma's government to do more to tackle the chronic
unemployment blighting the continent's biggest economy.

Given Valshiya: "We are just reminding the President of the country to
say as the youth we need jobs, you know we need to gain in the economy,
we also want to inform and say the issue of the land, it's important
that we expropriate land without paying so that those who are
unemployed, they can also benefit on the land."



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