Dashiki | Why SA’s young people are angry
There are no jobs. Universities and technical colleges have limited spaces. Parents have been retrenched or had their salaries slashed. Photo: ArchiveThey are not apathetic. They’re angry. You, the elders, stressed to them the importance of going to school and obtaining a degree to find a way out of poverty. Yet here we are.
South Africa’s official unemployment rate among young people was 46.3% in the first quarter of this year. The rate was 9.3% among university graduates, many of whom are already drowning in debt because of student loans to pay fees.Subscribe to News24 for just R75 per month to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. You can cancel any time.
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