Is the future ever going to be bright for the youth?

taken from twitter.

Unemployment is one of the most touching issues in our country affecting mainly the youth. For years now the youth has been experiencing unemployment, the government keeps on promising that changes will be made but that is all in vain. As part of the election campaign, different political parties including the ruling party, made plenty of promises to its citizens. 

The unemployment rate rose from 26,7 percent in 2018 to 27,1 in 2019 and it sits at 29 percent today. 

The government in the beginning of the year announced that they are working on unemployment solutions however up to present day there are still no changes which were made. This has been a huge obstacle for the young people, making most of them to drop out of school as they claim that there is no reason to get educated because they will still stay at home after the completion of their qualification.

Young people who come from well fed off families have started to relocate, looking for greener pastures in other parts of the world as the future is not promising for them in South Africa, whilst the majority remain behind struggling to make ends meet. One young person said “it doesn’t matter how educated you are anymore, what matters is who knows you, as they are the one who will hire you, with or without a qualification”

Bianca Banda a student at Tshwane North College says that the government ought to offer entrepreneur skills to the youth so that we can be able to do something with our skills since there is high rate of unemployment in the country. As young people we are encouraged to go to school, get educated in order to have a better future, but where is the better future when we do not get employed after that?

 We have been promised change for the past five years, is there any change? No, just yesterday when the government was campaigning for votes the people, he promised to create about a million jobs yet today he is the very same person who is telling us that there is going to be “massive jobs losses” and we have to prepare for that. Majority of the youth if not all of them complete their courses and graduate with hopes that soon after graduating they will find employment not knowing that the future is bleak for them.

 Tholakele Ncube explains that unemployment has brought a setback amongst the youth, it increases the crime rate as people now see crime as the only way of making a living. The issue of companies wanting at least five years of experience should be put into consideration, how are graduates supposed to be unemployed when they are fresh from the universities? How are they supposed to be experienced when they are not hired? It is the state’s duty to make sure that the youth has a bright future and that can only be done through the creation of employment.

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”      Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tshwane University of Technology celebrates social values and the legacy of Nelson Mandela

Kgalema Motlanthe the former president is encouraging people to share Mandela’s vision for this nation to be prosperous, uphold his values through solidarity and tolerance amongst each other “As South Africans we are blessed to have the great Madiba from whom we draw inspiration and moral ascendency to share part,” said Motlanthe.

Former President addresses the auidence prior to Mandela Day

Tshwane Meyor Stevens Mokgalapa have donated blankets to the children of Nkululeko Community Center in Salvokop, one of the poorest communities “The spirit of giving especially children is a course that Madiba stood for and I urge you to follow his footsteps in-spite  of challenges our nation is facing.”

Malose Leopeng, a third year Marketing student at TUT is not fully satisfied with the former President’s response to the land question “What I was expecting from him to the land question was that if he is in support of amendment of section 25 in the constitution or opposed to it but he chose to answer about the procedures that need to be followed,” said Malose.


Levhuwo Ndou is urging the youth to be active citizens in the community and participate in nation building through the spirit of Mandela’s legacy and values and also do something to recognize those unknown heroes and heroins who also participated in the struggle to liberate South Africa “There were issues on elections this year and concerns from the IEC was that the majority of youth did not register to vote.

TUT Politics lecturer Mr L L Ndou

Prof. Lourens Van Staden Vice Chancellor and principal of Tshwane University of Technology said in order to move forward, South Africa is not looking for saints but for honest individuals who will look past their shortcomings and dedicate their lives in bettering the living conditions of our people.

TUT Vice Chancellor Prof. Lourens Van Staden

The late Nelson Mandela believed in the spirit of Ubuntu,the spirit of sharing and helping the people next to us.It is of great integrity that with him gone his legacy is still alive and kept going.People spend their 67 minutes differently on the 18th of July,good deeds are done on this day to show kindness,hence it is paramount that we as South Africans practice kindness everyday and not only on Nelson Mandela Day.