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title: "Street Talk: High school dropouts"
description: "Statistics released in 2016 show that over 40% of pupils in South Africa leave school before completing grade 12. These five young men from Philippi joined hundreds of thousands like themselves and dropped out of school."
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published: "2018-04-19T15:11:17"
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# Street Talk: High school dropouts

> Statistics released in 2016 show that over 40% of pupils in South Africa leave school before completing grade 12. These five young men from Philippi joined hundreds of thousands like themselves and dropped out of school.

By Street Talk · Published 19 April 2018, 17:11 SAST

## Content

[YouTube video: "YouTube video"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHvmDAr7C8c)

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