South Africa has an official unemployment rate of 27.1 percent. Among people under 35 the rate is about 53 percent — among the highest in the world. That high rate takes a heavy toll on the country’s educated youth, according to this report by AFP:
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 is a constant and gnawing reminder of potential that has gone unrealised for 10 years.
“It’s like you go to school, 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.
Armed with qualifications in wealth management, she migrated in 2008 from the small, central city of Kimberley to South Africa’s financial hub, Johannesburg, in…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
