WATCH | Young people desperate for work

 

JOHANNESBURG - The overwhelming response from young people to the Gauteng jobs fair last month underlines the unemployment crisis facing South Africa.

The country's official unemployment rate sits at 32.9%, but is much higher among the youth, at 70%.

Over 1.2 million people applied for the 8,000 jobs advertised by the Gauteng province, on 16 June.

eNCA’s Heidi Giokos has the details in the video above.

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