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Young women rise from poverty
They're being called "bappies" - booming, aspirational and previously poor - and they're behind South Africa's biggest economic wave yet. Since 1998 some three million single young black people - most of them women - have escaped poverty to find new hope and new lives in South Africa's cities.

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