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South Africa's students angry at more than just tuition fees

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For the past several weeks, university classes in South Africa have been disrupted as students protest against tuition fees. The fees are seen as prohibitive for many poor, particularly black, students. The protest movement therefore highlights frustration at enduring inequalities in the country, more than two decades after the end of apartheid. Our correspondents report from Cape Town.

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