SA has a problem of many private colleges marketing stale courses for non-existent jobs to uninformed youth:

Those youth & their families then erroneously think that those courses will guarantee them a job, unaware that companies no longer require those skills.

In a country like SA where unemployment is beyond crisis levels, poor youth are the most exposed.

So their parents take expensive credit to fund an archaic education.

Those youth - eager to become productive members of society - attend their courses and pass.

They then hit the brick wall of joblessness and poverty.

The families financial position is that worsened by the debt taken for the schooling.

In most economies, these youth are shielded by what we call “soft-entry work” or the statisticians call “elementary work”.

These are the waitering, cashier or tellering jobs that don’t require a rare skill.

But SA inability to protect the retail & restaurant trade has meant that those jobs are no longer available for the poor SA youth.

This is one the major issues that precipitated #BREXIT vote in the UK.

If we are not carefully, the social cliff that youth unemployment will lead to a much worse pandemic: chronic civil unrest & mass scale depression.

You will end up with entire townships were no youth are employed.

This is burden the state further, reduce the tax base, decimate the consumer class & further expose issues such as crime and GBV.

These are issues are causal.

And our state needs to address ALL OF THEM with a firm hand.

Stop trying to be liked.

Do what’s right.