OPINIONISTA: Let’s offer young people a national civilian service By Mmusi Maimane MmusiMaimane
At 50%, South Africa has the highest youth unemployment in the world. Compounding this problem is that the longer young people remain unemployed, the more unemployable they become. Make no mistake, this is a crisis. Economic disengagement has led to political disengagement. A larger proportion of young people are not registered to vote. Where there should be constructive hope, there is destructive despair.
I don’t think one can overstate the importance of work experience to young school-leavers who are not able to go on to tertiary education. It builds confidence and imparts practical skills while also embedding a culture of work and self-reliance. Ideally, all young school-leavers who don’t go on to post-school study should have access to an internship or apprenticeship of sorts. But the reality is that there are simply not enough internships or voluntary programmes available to provide all of them with work experience which they can in turn use to enter the labour force.
Some participants of this course will also partake in basic educator skills courses such as early childhood development programmes. This stream would look to identify a number of successful candidates who could undergo bridging courses to study further teaching degrees and diplomas – filling a much-needed skills gap in our country.
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