{"id":965195,"date":"2024-07-10T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965195"},"modified":"2024-07-10T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:41:11","slug":"youth-in-ngcobo-demand-action-on-unemployment-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/youth-in-ngcobo-demand-action-on-unemployment-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth in Ngcobo demand action on unemployment, corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flow of traffic was disrupted in the small rural town of Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape. This comes as disgruntled young people held a peaceful march to the local Dr AB Xuma local municipal offices.<\/p>\n<p>Topping the list of their demands is the issue of the rising youth unemployment rate.\u00a0 The youth is also concerned about allegations of corruption in the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Cape is amongst the provinces with the highest unemployment rate.\u00a0These young graduates can feel the pinch of unemployment, which is currently sitting at 60%.<\/p>\n<p>They say they feel neglected and are gradually losing hope of ever making it to the job market<\/p>\n<p>Siphokazi Mbawuli says,\u00a0&#8220;We are unemployed. It&#8217;s been years without employment. We have nothing to put on the table. We are suffering as the youth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Phaphama Bheja says,\u00a0&#8220;We are not motivated in our homes. Education has lost its value. My younger siblings are staying at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Youth in Ngcobo outline their grievance through a memorandum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nFPoEr3aD2I?si=uqSN36qJN4lTuaP7\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Service delivery issues have also been cited as a huge challenge facing the area.<\/p>\n<p>The youth says this small town was last revitalised more than 20 years ago.\u00a0They feel this may have a negative impact on the economy of the town, as it chases investors away.<\/p>\n<p>Chairperson for the Unemployed Youth Committee, Lupho Dyonase says, &#8220;The current issue that is faced by the youth is unemployment, service delivery and infrastructure. Infrastructure in the area has been deteriorating for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Dr AB Xuma local municipality says they will respond to the issues raised by the youth on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flow of traffic was disrupted in the small rural town of Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape. This comes as disgruntled young people held a peaceful march to the local Dr AB Xuma local municipal offices. Topping the list of their demands is the issue of the rising youth unemployment rate.\u00a0 The youth is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}