Young people in South Africa are at the coalface of the country’s unemployment crisis, with some suggesting that two in three people between the ages of 15 and 34 are out of work
Social movements and grassroots organisations protest for a basic income grant and service delivery, and against unemployment. The deepening economic crisis is having a disastrous effect on youth employment..
The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey shows that 61% of young people in that age group were unemployed in the last three months of last year, although that figure is likely to be about 70%, if one considers the expanded unemployment rate.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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