{"id":8102,"date":"2026-08-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:05:26","slug":"political-freedom-was-won-economic-freedom-is-still-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/articles\/political-freedom-was-won-economic-freedom-is-still-a-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Freedom Was Won. Economic Freedom Is Still a Fight."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"8103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/political-freedom-page-1-734x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/political-freedom-page-1-734x1024.png 734w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/political-freedom-page-1-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/political-freedom-page-1-768x1071.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/political-freedom-page-1-1101x1536.png 1101w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/political-freedom-page-1-1468x2048.png 1468w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/political-freedom-page-1-1024x1429.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/political-freedom-page-1.png 1792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"8104\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-4-734x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-4-734x1024.png 734w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-4-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-4-768x1072.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-4-1101x1536.png 1101w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-4-1468x2048.png 1468w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-4-1024x1429.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Sept-2026-edition-4-scaled.png 1834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Stats SA, in the first quarter of 2026, 60.9% of South Africans aged 15 to 24 were unemployed. When considering the number of people that are not in employment, education or training (NEET), Statistics South Africa\u2019s Quarterly Labour Force Survey revealed that 37.6% of people aged 15-24 were in the NEET category. This is the description of a generation that has been locked out of the economy before it has had a fair chance to enter it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,50],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-8102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-business","category-press-release","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8105,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions\/8105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}