KZN graduate: ‘Small business key to bring down unemployment’
A young KwaZulu-Natal marketing graduate, who has been unemployed for four years, believes the government needs to do more towards funding small businesses.
Umlazi’s Londiwe Ngcobo, 25, says this will bring down the rate of unemployment, as many young people are struggling to find jobs.
Stats SA recently revealed that the unemployment rate among young people aged 15 to 34 was up just slightly - to 38,2%, meaning more than one in every three young people in the labour force did not have a job in the first quarter of 2018.
Ngcobo says she has been struggling to find a job since she graduated back in 2014.
“I think the government should try to build small and medium enterprises. Those are the only companies that will be able to grow and develop us,” she says.
She says these companies need grooming and developing as well as to be provided with enough resources to allow them the space to create jobs for the masses.
Ngcobo says she spends her days printing, emailing and faxing documents as she looks for a job - but that even that has become expensive.
“I usually go online and send my CV over email, I find that’s the cheapest route,” she says, “But some companies ask us to fax documents and that's costly”.
The unemployment rate remains unchanged at 26,7% over the first quarter of 2018.