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Over 40,000 graduates unemployed

Selebi Phikwe district labour office.FILE PIC
Selebi Phikwe district labour office.FILE PIC

With continuous enrolment in higher education annually, Minister of Labour and Home Affairs Anna Mokgethi has disclosed that 40,036 graduates are currently unemployed.

Responding to a parliamentary question, Mokgethi specified that the unemployed graduate population is predominantly comprised of those who graduated in the Arts stream.

"These include artisan, technical, vocational, and even diploma and degree levels," Mokgethi noted.

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