Unemployment takes heavy toll on South Africa's young

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A large portrait of a bright-eyed young woman draped in a black graduation robe looms over a spotless, tiled lounge in Protea Glen, a suburb of Johannesburg's Soweto township.

And Julius Malema, the firebrand leader of the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters has warned that South Africa"cannot postpone the jobs question".The International Monetary Fund in April lowered South Africa's projected GDP growth rate for 2019 from 1.4 percent to 1.2 percent, citing policy uncertainty which with high levels of corruption and recurrent electricity blackouts, has harmed investor confidence.

"I'm not voting," said unemployed agriculture graduate Xhanti Ndondela, 26, who qualified in 2016."Why should I vote for a government that I will never work for?"With the dawn of democracy, access to higher education has improved, with the number of graduates from public universities more than doubling from 92,874 in 2000 to 203,076 in 2016.

"Overall, since 1994, a growing economy created many jobs in South Africa, but not enough to significantly reduce unemployment," said the bank. The former statistician-general and now Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative consultant, Pali Lehohla, has warned of a self-perpetuating crisis. "We are caught in that process where unemployment, poor education and poverty itself are reinforcing one another. There is going to be a tipping point no doubt," he told eNCA television news network.

 

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Why don't you address the elephant in the room in this article. Can govt alone employ all people? Your wealthy handlers are deliberately withholding money to grow their businesses & employ more people. Their greed selfishly retrench workers just to ensure that a black govt fail.

You can't save, move up in society, grow as a person, help your community, start your own side business, invest in a hobby or invest in education or skills you're just stuck in limbo trying to survive day to day as your mental state deteriorates and sink into depression.

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