The scourge of youth unemployment
Five-million young people without jobs, as SA gears up to celebrate 30 years of democracy
Anitha Peter, a petite and soft-spoken 31-year-old woman from Kwazakhele in Nelson Mandela Bay, has never had a job.
Though she matriculated in 2010 from Woolhope Secondary School and went on to obtain a safety in society qualification from a TVET college along with a couple of short courses in early childhood development, she has yet to earn a steady income over the last decade, other than a three-month stint cleaning a nearby park. ..
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