With 20m young people in SA, we have the energy and talent to transform our country, yet we could fill up FNB Stadium 80 times with youngsters who are neither receiving education, training nor employment, write Kristal Duncan-Williams & Clotilde Angelucci
‘Rustenburg is not a place of hope any more’ – Community devastated by massive job cuts in mining industryIt read: “I once attended a youth dialogue with government officials. We listened to speeches by old people for 2.5 hours. Then they took three comments from attendees, totalling five minutes of the entire event. They probably marked it somewhere official saying that they ‘had engaged’ with the youth.
While we look forward to the president unveiling the inner workings of the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention plan, we need to recognise that this issue affects –and currently defines – an entire generation of young people. When the campaign launched in 2018, we spent months travelling around five provinces – the Eastern Cape, the Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape – speaking to almost 400 young people to hear their views and experiences of unemployment.
In addition to providing young people with a platform and the tools to amplify their voices, Youth Capital has combined the extensive research on youth unemployment with the lived experiences and viewpoints of young people to define three integrated areas of action: education, transitions and jobs. Because employers use qualifications as a measure of skill, every person who completes a qualification needs to have a certificate to show for it.
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