Ramaphosa says unemployment must be seen as a societal problem [SOUND]

# President Cyril Ramaphosa says all stakeholders in the country must work together to provide sustainable solutions to reduce unemployment among young people. South Africa’s official unemployment rate now stands at 32.7-percent, while 4.7 million young people who can work remain unemployed. Delivering the keynote address at the National Youth Day commemoration in Johannesburg yesterday, Ramaphosa emphasised that the private sector has a responsibility too to address the challenge of unemployment: