Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

A minority of South African people have steady, formal jobs. Too many, including a large fraction

of the country's youth, do piecemeal work or are unemployed altogether. We look at the

efforts to bring the young into the workforce. And there's a lot of talk about public figures,

particularly candidates in America's upcoming presidential race, speaking multiple languages.

What's with these polyglot politicians?

But first...

A funeral will be held today for a young journalist from Northern Ireland who was shot dead last week.

We're all perfor the loss of Lira. Our hopes and dreams and all of her amazing potential

was snuffed up by a single barbaric act.

Lira McKee had been reporting on violent unrest in the city of London Dairy.

We believe this to be a terrorist act. We believe it's been carried out by violent

Republicans. Yesterday a group called the new IRA took responsibility for the killing.

It even apologized. The incident was a shocking reminder of the fragility of peace

since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict known as the Troubles.

This was an attack on everybody in Northern Ireland. It doesn't matter if you're a Catholic or a

Protestant, British or Irish. This is an attack on democracy.

The Troubles began in the 1960s and pated mostly Catholic Irish nationalists against the British

army, the Northern Ireland police and mostly Protestant loyalists.

For three decades, violence and terror was a part of everyday life.

The turmoil claimed more than 3,500 lives.

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