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.
As South Africa heads to the polls on May 8, the promise of jobs has once again become election bait.
"We will be able to create up to 275,000 additional jobs each year," Ramaphosa said at the ANC's election manifesto launch in January.
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