Zimbabwe’s “graduate vendors” wearing gowns go viral!

Picture of a Zimbabwean graduate dressed in graduation gown while selling chocolate and flags on the streets of central Harare along Kwame Nkrumah Avenue has gone viral on social media. The picture highlights the depth of the country’s problems, where the high levels of unemployment have forced graduates unable to put into practice what they have studied to work as vendors, something they certainly never envisaged. The official unemployment rate is 10 percent and the unofficial rate is believed to be a staggering 80 percent.

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