As the country celebrates Youth Day, some graduates feel their battle for free education is not yet won.
Still trapped by the same things that the youth of SA have been fighting against, young graduates open upSome youth said they were excited during the 2015 Fees Must Fall campaign as they thought change was coming their way.As the country celebrates Youth Day, some graduates feel their battle for free education is not won yet.
“It’s hard to say that I will enjoy this Youth Day because there are a lot of things that I don’t think we have achieved as the youth of this country. I am a graduate yet I still have a historic debt that I have accumulated from 2014 up until 2017,” he said. “I owe the institution a lot of money, it’s a very bad situation. If I don’t have the required documents, I can’t get a job, so I can’t pay them. So this is the situation that we as youth still face post-1976 and post the Fees Must Fall movement,” he said.Daily, Diana Masingue is confronted with the crushing reality of the outstanding financial debt she owes.
Looking back at the Fees Must Fall protest, Masingue said she was excited when she saw thousands of young people marching for their rights. “It’s very hard looking for a job, knowing that you don’t have a qualification to show employers. We are competing with other graduates who have their qualification and some even have the experience,” she said.
“So I am just sitting at home trapped and saying 'where will I find a job?' Which good Samaritan is going to come our way and say, 'it’s fine, I can help you with this'. It’s very difficult and the competition is very tight,” she said.Though the 26-year-old had to drop out of school due to a lack of funds, she said she was not going to give up on her life. She will be doing community work on Youth Day.
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