OPINION | Investing In Basic Skills Can Help Us Fight Unemployment

When the Boers took over this country from the British they did not stop farming to become lawyers and doctors overnight. They understood the importance of farming and continued to build from that. A child of a farmer grew up and became a lawyer/doctor.

When we got freedom in 1994 the idea of dismantling Bantu Education was so strong that we closed all teaching and nursing colleges because we were made to believe that these were "BlackJobs" and somehow "low" in the society. Everyone wanted to go to University to get a degree and we forgot even the basic things like owning a bakery, butchery or just a shop.

It is only now that we speak about going back to the basics because we see how the Somalians are making millions with their spaza shops, an economy that was once in the hands of our grandparents. 

Today everyone wants to study teaching and there is an influx of graduates who are registering for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education simply because we are trying to go back to the basics.

We need to change our mentality and invest more in basic skills in order to solve the problem of unemployment. We also need to tell our learners that going to a TVET College is not something you should be ashamed of. My own uncle is a brick layer and he makes more money than many people with "fancy jobs". We can't all be lawyers and doctors. Let's return back to the basics. Analy Online. 

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