“No internships, no pharmacists”

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Final-year Students at Nelson Mandela university are striking for placement for their internships, highlighting what appears to be a much broader, nationwide problem.

There are reportedly more than 1000 final year students in South African universities with less than 250 internship posts.


The South African citizens seems to be outraged particularly because public hospitals are already struggling with understaffing and poor service delivery, in a country where graduates are unable to secure the internships required to complete their training and enter the workforce.


The question is, does universities and government  need to adjust enrolment numbers and workforce planning ?

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