Youth like Tumiso Seroka and Njabulo Nxumalo are seeking job opportunities at the Chinese Job Fair amid soaring unemployment rates.
Tumiso Seroka and Njabulo Nxumalo join thousands seeking work at the Chinese government-backed Job Fair amid SAfrica's youth unemployment crisis.
They may be educated, but Tumiso Seroka, 28, and Njabulo Nxumalo, 27, share something in common with the 50.47% South African youth statistic – unemployment. Among the crowd of unemployed youth who this week thronged the Chinese government-backed Job Fair 2024 at Gallagher Estate in Midrand this week to seek job opportunities, Seroka and Nxumalo, were hopeful of finding work in any of the locally based Chinese companies.
“But we hope for the best. I am looking for any job, as long as I put something on the table. I have put my application in to six companies, including one that has to do with manufacturing and maintenance.”Nxumalo, who was retrenched by a construction company subcontracted by the Bakubung Platinum Mine is doing the fourth year of an LLB degree with the University of South Africa. “Our contract ended last December.
“This fair has provided me with an opportunity to network and meet different people from different backgrounds – something to learn from,” she said.Reflecting on the harshness of being unemployed, Nxumalo said: “It has been tough but I have been trying other things to sustain myself. “I have a family in Soweto that has been assisting me.Thejane found a job in a Chinese company
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