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South Africa’s Soaring Unemployment Hits Women Hardest 

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South Africa’s jobless rate has hit 34% — among the highest in the world — as the country’s economy is stifled by the pandemic and July’s riots. Black women are among the worst affected with 41% unemployed. Linda Givetash reports from Johannesburg.

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