South Africa faces 60% joblessness between the ages of 16-25. Is a repurposing of conscription in SA the answer to youth unemployment?
this week, the seldom-talked-about issue of conscription in SA to cure joblessness came to the fore. John Dludlu, CEO of theamong 16-25-year olds. And that Oliver Tambo himself, “Despicable though the apartheid regime was, Afrikaner empowerment and employment … did get some things right.”South Africa’s youth unemployment is amongst the highest in the world. And even the thousands of young people who earned university degrees are walking the streets jobless or not in training.
And there are several youth employment initiatives like theDludlu then gets the crux of the matter by saying, while commendable, more creative thinking is required to defuse the youth unemployment time bomb. “It may also be time to start thinking the unthinkable: reintroducing conscription in SA. During the apartheid era, conscription trained young white men to defend their country from internal and external threats.
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