On Tuesday, 22 September 2015, National Treasury with the Deputy Minister of Finance, gave an overview and a status report on the Jobs Fund to the Standing Committee on Appropriations. South Africa's unemployment challenge needs high levels of economic growth which require long term structural change to the economy. The ...
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VIP is opening up a crowd-sourced challenge to our community to suggest crucial issues, topics or policy ideas that young South Africa would like to present to parliament, dubbed the Parliament Challenge. The VIP team will work in conjunction with political experts, civil society organisations and MPs ...
On Tuesday, 1 September, Statistics SA briefed the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development on the Quarterly Labour Force Survey. The briefing focused on the high rate of youth unemployment (36.9%) and the triple challenges of inequality, poverty and unemployment. A recent article highlighted most of what Statistics SA presented to ...
After hosting a successful festival in Cape Town and Joburg, Live Mag SA looked at some of the points that surfaced in the numerous discussions and realised that one topic stood out – Youth Unemployment.
As part of their ongoing debate series, they are inviting Members of Parliament (MPs), ...
By Sheilan Clarke
June is Youth Month – a time where we commemorate the class of ’76 while also celebrating the tenacity and creative spirit of this generation’s youth. But things aren’t all rosey. Young South Africans continue to face issues such as unemployment, lack of funding for education and ...
Even with the Youth Day Holiday to compress the parliamentary week, the legislature has arranged a substantial programme in the main chambers, which includes ministerial statements, policy debates, oral questions and the processing of assorted bills and statutory instruments.
No surprises, President Zuma will grab the limelight when he answers ...
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015, the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) briefed the Economic and Business Development Select Committee on the policy objectives to create work, particularly for young people. Although millions of Rands are being spent on youth development, particularly youth employment, the proportion of young people not employed ...
The programmes in the main chambers offer a blend of members' statements, policy debates, legislative business, oral questions to the Deputy President and Economic Cluster and a joint debate to mark Youth Day.
During his question session in the National Assembly (NA) on Wednesday, the leader of government business ...
By Sheilan Clarke
Get this; according to statistics, over half of our country’s youth are unemployed. That’s a pretty high figure. How did we get to this point and, importantly, what’s the way forward? We caught up with a Mbuyiseni Ndlozi (EFF), Michael Cardo (DA) and Cheryllyn Dudley (ACDP) to ...
By Sheilan Clarke
Government hasn’t forgotten about the youth of South Africa. So much so that The Presidency created the National Youth Plan 2020 (NYP). The draft, which was approved by Cabinet on Thursday, focuses on how to improve certain areas of the lives of young people. Deputy Minister in ...