The children of South Africa's 1994 revolution will, one day soon, eat up their parents. They will have no choice but to do so. We have, after all, failed them in the most spectacular fashion - and continue to do so.Last week Statistics SA announced that our unemployment rate had jumped dramatically in the first quarter of the year to 26.7%.In the expanded definition of unemployment, that means 8.9million South Africans who are able to work are not in jobs.Think about that. Weigh it up in your head. In South Africa today there are 8.9million people who want to work, are able to work, and are not in work. Most of them are young people.NOW READ THIS: South African Indians and the supercilious Mr Motsoeneng | GARETH VAN ONSELENIn the run-up to the 1994 and 1999 elections, the ANC ran a campaign built around jobs. The party's yellow posters screamed: "Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!'In the run-up to the 2009 election, Jacob Zuma's election campaign was centred on the promise of jobs. We know now what...
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