Fewer than 50% of all matriculants will hold a job in the formal employment sector before they celebrate their 24th birthday, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), said in Pretoria on Monday.

HSRC chief executive Dr Olive Shisana made the statement as she released the organisation’s audited financial results for the year 2009/10, which saw the organisation receive its tenth consecutive unqualified report.

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