A graduate from TUT – who survived gender-based violence – has pulled herself out of the unemployment pandemic through a kota shop.
Tag: Youth unemployment
“We have many jobs available … people need to know what it is that the market wants today,” said CEO of FP&M SETA during a youth day event.
“The lack of networks and experience can make it more difficult for (young people) to find other, decent employment,” according to experts from the International Labour Organization.
While Stats SA has released a fourth-quarter survey that contains discouraging unemployment figures, a study shows that it costs almost R1 000 a month to search for work.
Workplace experience is valuable when a student is still studying, says the SA Council for Graduates CEO.
The gospel by the state that young people must be entrepreneurs is not a solution; it is an empty rhetoric. It is no longer fashionable to say go study, becoming an entrepreneur is an in thing.
A source told The Open Journal, “the (student) leaders are less of what I thought of them,” adding that he sees the Walk as an exercise aimed to brick about “self-glory”.
The Open Journal 