Unemployment in Kwatsadutza

Kwatsadutza it’s  three township that is Kwathema, Tsakane and Duduza , they make one town ship. This caused by increase of population people building shacks as the government is not building houses for them. Kwatsadutza is in Ekurhuleni east of Johannesburg. The population is about 160 000 we three town that are surrounding these township. Brakpan, Springs and Nigel.

Ekurhuleni was the place GOLD, PLATINUM and DIAMOND in the past 100years until the 1960 when the capitalist have finish extracting our minerals and left us with nothing. People flock to this place because of employment and now when the mine decided to close it left people without employment and overpopulated as well. Crime escalated people started building shacks as they cannot afford houses. Those who had bond houses lost their houses as they cannot afford any more.

The family next door is a family of nine where the mother and elder daughter are only one working, I just wonder how they cope with kids who are still at the  school at same time have to buy food and have money for transport to work. We have lot of highly educated people in our society who are not working and have resorted in liquor and drunks imagine those brains and information lost. When we voted for this government we promised work and better life is this it? I just finish my matric and supplemented I want to college or technikon after that what will happen to me? Our Government is still promoting labour brokers who make our people to suffer more.

I am worried about the next generation who still at school who are not aware what is waiting for them. We need to work hard to pressurize our government to do something about employment and stop corruption.

Vuyani Mqwathi

Ekurhuleni Environmental Org