Chairperson, in 2014, the ANC promised to address the needs of the youth for empowerment, education and job creation through a multipronged approach that creates job placements and internship schemes. This approach sets aside 60% of employment and empowerment in infrastructure, projects for youth and training incentive schemes. The failing ANC promised that this approach would empower and promote the education and employment for young South Africans. However, this promise was not kept in terms of job creation as the number of unemployed youths increased in the age group 15 to 34 year. Five hundred and sixty-six thousand more people are unemployed in 2018 than in 2014, based on the official unemployment definition.
Our education system doesn't prepare our young people to become entrepreneurs and we still have a long way to go in bringing entrepreneurship skills to students when they are at their most creative and inspired age. We need young people who are job creators, and not young people who are turned pensioners before they reach pensionable age. Millions of our young South Africans are grant