The Struggle of the Gen Z in South Africa, the Country with the Greatest Inequality in the World

El Pais

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Ayathandwa Ziqula’s gaze shines when, sitting on a bench at the Braamfontein campus of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, he says that he is the first student of the public high school in which he studied to have accessed the prestigious university institution, known as Wits. In that brightness, in its content pride, vibrates something much bigger than this 19-year-old boy. He reverberates there a historic victory over a dark past …