Graduates survive by fixing shoes,Vending, Touting and Taxi driving.

 Thousands of university and tertiary college graduates are increasingly working in the most basic, menial jobs such as vending, touting and taxi driving. Some survive by repairing shoes and hand bags in which they make an average of $20 per day . This is bitter and embarrassing because they cannot adequately look after their parents who gave up all their earthly possessions so that their son could get a good education. They find it hard enough just to sustain their own families and the skills that they acquired all those years ago at university have gone down the drain.All this is because of  the shrinking prospects of employment opportunities in the country especially in Bulawayo where most industries have closed.

The country‘s unemployment rate is higher than 85% and more and more people are becoming jobless every day as more companies close down as a result of the harsh economic conditions.