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No doubt: Digital skills and access to platforms are critical for workforce empowerment and skills development. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

Enabling greater access to employment opportunities through digital platforms and literacy

Digital platforms are vital to combat youth unemployment in South Africa, addressing systemic barriers and fostering economic growth

Young people are asked for their views but these seldom translate into action.

Policy dialogues: Youth in the room, but not at the table

There is nothing more disempowering than participation without influence. And there is nothing more dangerous than a generation that feels ignored.

National Youth Development Agency gives young women support through the National Youth Service Programme 

Youths provided with meaningful work experience an increase in confidence, competencies, civic commitment and personal and professional development

Young people want to work, not wait

A skilled, educated, economically supported youth is the bedrock of a strong democracy

National Youth Development Agency through the National Youth Service opens applications for 20 000 youth opportunities

Enabling young people to transition from learning to earning

Leading digital marketing agency appointed as communications and creative agency for Presidential Youth Employment Intervention

The Ethical Agency is producing creative marketing materials for Youth Month and Youth Day activities

Give the youth the budget they deserve so they can prosper and grow

Funding, collaboration and innovation can improve the skills and prospects of young South Africans

Unemployment epidemic: These men, gathered together to wait for the possibility of a piece job, are some of the 34.9% of South Africans who are without work, the highest figure among 82 countries monitored by business news agency Bloomberg.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Slow implementation spurs frustration over South Africa’s jobs crisis

So says Rudi Dicks, who is in charge of coordinating President Cyril Ramaphosa’s initiatives to drive structural reforms and employment

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Investment bonds: ‘The outcome is not measured by money but by impact’

Social impact bonds focused on decreasing youth unemployment and improving early childhood learning have delivered positive outcomes the government can replicate to establish…

South Africa continues to face an ever-increasing human development crisis, and that is best reflected by the number of 15- to 34-year-olds who are disengaged from both work and education. (David Harrison/M&G)

A net to catch the NEETs

A decade of reconstruction looms post-Covid. This is our chance to restructure the economy to build a more inclusive one