Politicians are traversing the length and breath of the land, making lavish and empty promises that they’ll promptly forget as soon as the votes are counted. No political party has tabled any tangible and viable plans to address unemployment, the single biggest issue affecting SA’s largest voting block — the youth.People between the ages of 15 and 34 make up 36% of the population, says Statistics SA in its 2016 Community Survey.Unemployed and mostly unemployable, these young people are at the forefront of the various election campaigns — useful pawns in the democratic power struggles of mostly old men and women.Come election day, the knuckles of these young people will be swollen from knocking on doors to explain election messages they had little input in formulating.They will derive even less benefit once the votes are counted. When that’s done, they will be free to go back to their life of poverty and unemployment.Their old and largely corrupt party bosses (and a few youthful but ...
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