Unemployed graduates turn to sit-in protests to get the government to respond calls of job opportunities

As numbers of unemployment continue at an unabated rate with figures currently sitting at a soaring 7.9 million, Stats SA said the youth still remains vulnerable in the labour market.

The fourth quarter of 2023 results show that the total number of unemployed youth increased by 87,000 to 4.7 million while there was a decrease of 97,000 in the number of employed youth to 5.9 million.

From these numbers, it was indicative that a larger part was contributed by people who were only in...