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Collapsing education system fuelling NMB unemployment crisis

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Dear MyPE

Our people are being plunged into perpetual hopelessness by an unemployment crisis that leaves more and more people without work every single day.

As I walked the streets of KwaZakhele with Mmusi Maimane yesterday morning, I was again faced with the brutal reality that our most vulnerable communities continue to go without adequate education and proper service delivery.

The recent provincial matric pass rate decline of 10% confirms my belief that the provincial department of education is worsening in its ability to provide our youth with skills. This only serves to perpetuate an already vicious cycle of poverty and unemployment, creating an insider-outsider environment of staggering proportions.

The DA is committed to building a society of entrepreneurs, backed up by an effective education system, infrastructural support and a red tape free bureaucracy. We must restore hope and opportunity so that jobs can be created.

Through an entrepreneurship competition, the DA has already set the bar high in terms of empowering young and intuitive minds. Mfundo Mcdonald Piti, the owner of Nyama’ayipheli Tshisa Nyama in KwaZakhele, and the winner of the competition, has shown against all odds that entrepreneurship is the key to success.

With an unemployment rate of 36.6% and youth unemployment at 47.7%, Nelson Mandela Bay is at the mercy of a spiralling jobs crisis which the current planless ANC government is responsible for.

Inequality feeds into racism and resentment, which is why it is so important for government to create jobs to bring about much needed balance across all communities.

Change is coming to Nelson Mandela Bay, and with it a new era of freedom, fairness and opportunity.

Regards

Athol Trollip

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