A large number of South African youth spend over 20 hours looking for work in a week. That is approximately three hours a day, including the weekends.
shows that 27.5% of young people spend 20+ hours looking for work, closely followed by 26.7% respondents who said they spend 4 - 8 hours a week looking for work, 17.9% of respondents said they spend 8-12 hours, 15.3% said they spent 2-4 hours and 12.6% of respondents said they spend 12-20 hours looking for work.
When asked how the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown affected the ability to work, 57% agreed that it became more expensive to job seek, 18.4% of respondents said they lost their jobs, 13.1% said they were forced to relocate, and 11.5% had a decreased income.
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