Unemployed for two years, the electrician Jeremias Garcia, 25, told Lusa that he survives with some odd jobs that, however, have become scarce in the last three months and considered the current situation "critical".
"I live with my parents, but the tendency is to be independent and, for that, we have to have something to do. I've been without odd jobs for almost three months, it's not easy, but God is always good and the morsels always appear" , said.
Jeremias Garcia, who was leaving the center of the capital in search of some job opportunity, considered unemployment in Angola critical, "aggravated" by covid-19.
"It is necessary to create mechanisms to have more jobs, especially for young people to plan their future", he urged.
Cláudia Mara Nhanga, a restaurant technician and unemployed for three years, spent what little money she had, trying her luck in one of the restaurants in the center of Luanda, but more than two hours of waiting later had no positive results.
Back home, the 23-year-old described her daily journey to Lusa, reaffirming her "motivation to continue the difficult struggle in search of a job".
"I waited more than two hours for the owner of the restaurant and I didn't have any success, so I'm going home without any positive response, but I'll keep looking because we can't lose motivation," she said.
For Cláudia Mara Nhanga, who saw life "complicate" after being removed from the restaurant where she worked, "as a result of the economic crisis", it is "urgent" to create employment policies under penalty of many young people "continuing immersed in drugs and other negative practices".
"A terrible battle" was the adjective used by Didon Nzinga, unemployed for 4 years, to classify his daily journey as a "fight for survival", above all to support his two children.
With odd jobs in the electricity business "increasingly difficult", Didon Nzinga, 28, who completed a mathematics course at the Teacher Training School, has knocked on several doors, but these are still closed.
"People take public exams, we hand out documents, but the name never comes out," she lamented, urging authorities to pay attention to youth if they wanted to "make tomorrow's future."
Unemployed for two years, Omblina Lenda Paulino complained of the "nepotism" that she says "persisted" in public and private institutions in the selection of staff, lamenting the lack of opportunities.
"We are looking for (job) and the opportunities do not appear, they are few, there are even places that need people to work, but with that pride they prefer to get people close to them without qualifications and the chair is empty," she said.
The 22-year-old computer engineer, "occasional trader", dreams of a job in the training field, but faces several difficulties in her daily life. She guarantees, however, that she will continue to fight. "And in God's name we'll make it," she shoots her.
For his part, jurist Mauro Carlos, 28, who has been unemployed for eight months, "does not believe in the current public policies" that aim to reverse the current unemployment rate in Angola, claiming that he survives with activities on his own.
"I don't see anything, I don't see a better future, I only see hard work, self-employment can be the solution, and not waiting for the Government", he defended, stressing that his daily struggle "is to survive".
Angola continues to record a high rate of unemployment, which mainly affects young people, a situation that results from the economic, financial and exchange rate crisis that the country has been experiencing since the end of 2014, due to the fall in the price of oil on the international market.
The situation, according to authorities, was also aggravated by the covid-19 pandemic.
In the electoral campaign for the 2017 elections, candidate João Lourenço, current President, promised to create 500,000 new jobs by the end of the legislature, in 2022.
