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From Determination To Despair: S.Africa's Youth Battling For Work

Self-taught barber Thabang Moshoke created his own job when he could not find work in South Africa, whose unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world (Credit: AFP)

In a corner of his mother's backyard, 30-year-old Thabang Moshoke runs a clipper through a client's hair at a makeshift barbershop that has only a rough roof to shield it from the skies.

A queue of men and boys wait their turn for a 60-rand ($3.50) trim from this self-taught barber, who defied South Africa's massive unemployment rate -- one of the highest in the world -- to create his own job.

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