'It's like you go to school ... and then once you are qualified you sit with a whole stack of certificates that you can't actually use,' 36-year-old Kgomotso Sebabi said.
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."It's like you go to school ... and then once you are qualified you sit with a whole stack of certificates that you can't actually use," 36-year-old Kgomotso Sebabi said.
The government repeatedly vows, especially on the elections campaign trail, to create desperately needed jobs. "It's been incredibly difficult and demotivating," said Maputla as she finished cleaning her mother's house in Daveyton township east of Johannesburg. "We will be able to create up to 275 000 additional jobs each year," Ramaphosa said at the ANC's election manifesto launch in January.
"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.
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