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The market requires entrepreneurialism, innovation, critical thinking, decisiveness and problem-solving abilities, but most schools and tertiary institutions don’t support this. Photo: AFP
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Graduates and their unemployment dilemma

South African university graduates are willing to take menial jobs because of the dearth of suitable employment despite being highly educated

  • Zandile Bangani
7 min read
The 2024 annual report by SweepSouth on domestic worker pay and conditions found that many are drowning in debt and depression because of low wages and non-compliance with working conditions laid out in labour laws.(Gallo)
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Domestic workers: overworked, underpaid and unprotected

Armed with brooms and mops, domestic workers took to the streets to demand better wages, recourse to legal protection against unscrupulous employers

  • Zandile Bangani
4 min read