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🔥 “We Don’t Have an Unemployment Crisis — We Have an Unemployability Crisis.”In this powerful and provocative episode of The Mindscaped Podcast, Mohamed Kharwa returns to the studio for a raw, unfiltered conversation about South Africa’s education system, and it’s not pretty. From the shocking reading statistics to the collapse of critical thinking, we dive deep into how an entire generation is being left behind.We unpack why reading culture has died, how schools are producing paper qualifications instead of problem solvers, and why our real issue isn’t unemployment, it’s unemployability. This episode challenges everything we’ve been told about education, opportunity, and youth development in South Africa.
00:00 On this week's episode
02:45 Are books dead?
04:30 How many pupils actually get into University?
08:15 Schools don't have libraries
11:15 We have an unemployability problem in SA
14:30 Unemployability starts at school
18:15 Written is still the main form of learning
21:00 50% of people don't think reading is important
25:00 Do your parents read?
26:45 Libraries don't have actual books?
 32:00 Free state has the most libraries
33:30 Are audio books good for you?
36:00 End
By MindScaped Podcast🔥 “We Don’t Have an Unemployment Crisis — We Have an Unemployability Crisis.”In this powerful and provocative episode of The Mindscaped Podcast, Mohamed Kharwa returns to the studio for a raw, unfiltered conversation about South Africa’s education system, and it’s not pretty. From the shocking reading statistics to the collapse of critical thinking, we dive deep into how an entire generation is being left behind.We unpack why reading culture has died, how schools are producing paper qualifications instead of problem solvers, and why our real issue isn’t unemployment, it’s unemployability. This episode challenges everything we’ve been told about education, opportunity, and youth development in South Africa.
00:00 On this week's episode
02:45 Are books dead?
04:30 How many pupils actually get into University?
08:15 Schools don't have libraries
11:15 We have an unemployability problem in SA
14:30 Unemployability starts at school
18:15 Written is still the main form of learning
21:00 50% of people don't think reading is important
25:00 Do your parents read?
26:45 Libraries don't have actual books?
 32:00 Free state has the most libraries
33:30 Are audio books good for you?
36:00 End