PATRICK BULGER | Born Free: youth deserve better than hollow promises of freedom
If we really cared, we’d require them to help make SA better. Instead, we leave them to their own devices as we dress up neglect as virtue
16 June 2022 - 19:07
During the hard lockdown in mid-2020, a young African man dressed in rags and a green blanket called out to me from outside my gate in east Joburg, pleading for food. I got to know him a little: his name is Mduduzi, he’s 28 years old and was brought up by his grandparents in Umlazi, Durban...
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