The biggest factor of unemployment is a slow-growing economy which has failed to produce jobs at the pace at which new graduates enter the market.
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, 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.
Causes of unemployment are many and complex, the biggest factor being a slow-growing economy which has failed to produce jobs at the pace at which new graduates enter the market. Media graduate Tswelopele Maputla, 22, completed her journalism studies in November 2018 at Rhodes University, but has been nowhere near a newsroom. She mails out job applications whenever she can.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed that his African National Congress will create "many more" jobs. The party has been in power for 25 years and will, according to all polls, win the majority vote yet again. And Julius Malema, the firebrand leader of the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters has warned that the country "cannot postpone the jobs question".The International Monetary Fund in April lowered South Africa's projected GDP growth rate for 2019 from 1.4 percent to 1.2 percent, citing policy uncertainty which with high levels of corruption and recurrent electricity blackouts, has harmed investor confidence.
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