The government is ‘acutely aware’ of unemployment challenges, says Zuma
The government is doing its best, working with business and labour, to create the right environment for job creation, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday. "Beyond higher education, we are acutely aware of the challenges particularly of unemployment among our youth. Our university graduates sit in street corners and road pavements, crying out for something to do, anything," said Zuma. He was delivering a keynote address on the last day of a week-long joint sitting of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) and the Eastern Cape provincial legislature in East London. The aim of the biannual sitting, launched by the NCOP in 2002, was to engage with communities and to evaluate government programmes in the area. SA has been struggling to address the unemployment rate, with its youth the worst affected. Political observers have described the situation as untenable and a ticking time bomb. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan recently described the country’s high youth unemployment rate as a na...
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