Staff Reporter
Out of one million youth entering the labour market annually, 2/3rds will end up not in education, employment, or training (NEETs) within a year, according to the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa (SEIFSA).
South Africa has a slow growth economy that results in young people being locked out of the labour market due to various barriers and although there is high investment in education and training programs, we see limited transition of these youth into earning opportunities.
Citing the example of youth employment accelerator Harambee, which uses innovative technology to speed up youth employment by unlocking and aggregating jobs to make them visible and accessible to youth and providing tools for young people to make themselves more employable. This zero-rated platform is called SA Youth and is part of the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention.
Harambee breaks barriers for youth through research, intelligence, and advocacy: data and insights gathered from the over 3.5 million young people we have supported through our platform give us the insights we need to reduce the barriers that exclude young people from the labour market.
This platform will give business leaders knowledge of how to reduce existing barriers in youth unemployment. It will also give them a platform to source young talent and be able to give employment to the youth to address the socio – economic issue which is unemployment.
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