Debates and discussions abound regarding the dismal matric pass rate and our children continue to suffer the consequences of a system that is failing them.

Year in and year out, the intellectual and political debates continue over how the situation could improve. However, there appears to be a total absence of any discussion on the bleak future of learners who fail matric, and ultimately join the growing population of other unemployed and unemployable youths.

(As published in the Citizen and Sowetan)