PHARMACY GRADUATES’ FUTURES STOLEN: A GENERATION LEFT IN LIMBO AS SYSTEM COLLAPSES
South Africa is CANCELLING the futures of hundreds of newly qualified pharmacists. A CRITICAL SHORTAGE of government internships has left graduates stranded, unable to complete their mandatory community service. Their degrees are now WORTHLESS PAPER, trapping them in a nightmare of debt and despair.
This isn’t an accident—it’s a SYSTEMIC FAILURE. Photos of anxious graduates holding framed degrees they can’t use tell the whole story. The government department in charge ADMITS the backlog but offers NO SOLUTIONS, NO TIMELINES. Meanwhile, videos from protests show the human cost: educated professionals begging for the chance to work.
WHO PAYS THE PRICE? The graduates, their families, and ultimately EVERY SOUTH AFRICAN who needs medication. Public clinics and rural pharmacies remain dangerously understaffed while qualified hands are forced to wait. Who benefits? A broken bureaucracy that stays funded regardless of results, and private corporations that may swoop in to hire desperate talent at rock-bottom wages later.
The silence from health authorities is DEAFENING. They are gambling with the nation’s health infrastructure and an entire generation’s livelihood.
One day you have a degree, the next you’re told it means nothing—this is how a country abandons its own future.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
