<story><title>43% of South African youths are not in employment, education or training</title><url>https://www.iafrikan.com/2021/06/04/iafrikan-daily-brief-166-time-bomb/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greggoB</author><text>Loving how many responding here don&amp;#x27;t seem to actually realise the socio-economic situation in South Africa is &lt;i&gt;vastly&lt;/i&gt; different to that in the US&amp;#x2F;Europe, and so immediately start making false equivalencies.&lt;p&gt;As a white male from South Africa, I can assure you this wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been my reality were I still living there. Black people make up approx 80% of the population, and this would disproportionally be theirs. Reasons date back to the Apartheid regime, which deliberately kept non-whites uneducated, as well as some horrendous mismanagement under the current ANC governnment under then-president Jacob Zuma (who himself serious under-valued education in general).&lt;p&gt;Just as one example: there was a famous incident where, due to some corrupt dealings, textbooks weren&amp;#x27;t able to be delivered in Limpopo (one of the provinces) for several years in a row. For many years there have been schools with 0% high school graduation rates. The infrastructure and processes that are taken for granted in developed countries are only really available to a minority in SA. This makes a huge difference.</text></comment>
<story><title>43% of South African youths are not in employment, education or training</title><url>https://www.iafrikan.com/2021/06/04/iafrikan-daily-brief-166-time-bomb/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexgmcm</author><text>You find similarly grim numbers in Western Europe too. I mean youth unemployment was over 50% in Spain during the post-Great Recession crisis and is at 38% now.[1]&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s pretty sad - young people are living with their parents into their thirties and not having children until their 40&amp;#x27;s if at all, fuelling a massive decline in the birth rate to one of the lowest in the world at around 1.3 births per woman, far below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman[2]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&amp;#x2F;spain&amp;#x2F;youth-unemployment-rate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&amp;#x2F;spain&amp;#x2F;youth-unemployment-rate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;1033179&amp;#x2F;fertility-rate-spain-1850-2020&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;1033179&amp;#x2F;fertility-rate-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>