#SABCNews Headlines @15H00 | 24 August 2021

* Unemployment increased to 34,4% in the second quarter of this year, from 32.6% in the first quarter - with unemployment among young people between the ages of 15 to 24 at a staggering 64,4%.

* 276 political parties, and over 59-thousand candidates have been captured as parties rushed to meet the deadline to submit their nomination lists for the local government elections.

* Hakainde Hichilema is sworn in as the seventh President of Zambia in front of a packed Heroes Stadium in Lusaka.

* And 34 South African athletes carry the hopes and dreams of the country in Tokyo as the 2020 Paralympics kicks off