"I feel scammed": South Africa's unemployed graduates A quarter of a century into democracy and South Africans, even highly skilled individuals, are finding it hard to get jobs. Officially 27.1 percent of the country's employable people are jobless, with the youth unemployment rate hovering at 53 percent, ranked among the highest in the world. With national elections upcoming, some feel like they have been duped into believing education is the answer to their poverty. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES of two unemployed graduates in South Africa