Delivering the keynote address at the National Youth Day celebrations in Pretoria on Tuesday, Zuma placed the importance of education at the centre of his speech.
“Education continues to receive the biggest chunk of the national budget as our weapon for socioeconomic development,” he told guests at the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) celebrations.
He said the economy is not “growing as fast as we want to and is not creating as many jobs as we need. As a result, many of our graduates sit at home without jobs.”
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