MAY DAY | Unemployed mom sees no reason to celebrate: Regina Moholo, 40, a single mother of two who also looks after four other family children, has been unemployed for the past 10 years.
“To me Workers’ Day is just a public holiday and I cannot celebrate the day because I am unemployed. Unemployment is the pain in my heart, trauma in my mind and a gravel road in my life, that’s how I feel. I am pleading with our government to create jobs because we are suffering,” said Moholo.
second quarter of 2022 saw the number of unemployed youth increase by 2% to 4.8-million from the first quarter. retrenShe said the past decade had been difficult raising a big family as she had to juggle the money she gets through government grants. Nonzame Mbuti, 54, from Hostel One has also been without work for 10 years and is struggling to get a job.
“I moved back to Bloemfontein and since then I have been applying for jobs with no success. I also have certificates in Health and Safety and Risk management but that too hasn’t helped me in securing a job,” Letlhoo said.
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