COSATU calls for urgent youth jobs plan as unemployment rises [SOUND]

# The Congress of South African Trade Unions says it is troubling that the unemployment rate has increased to 32.9-percent in the first quarter of this year. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks says Statistics SA’s report of three in four young people being unemployed is alarming and called for urgent reform to create employment opportunities. He calls for a major expansion of public employment programmes, skills training and private sector artisan internships: