Chronicles of Cape Town Embrace #5: Back to the drawing board
After the second round of consultation, this time with potential participants in the programme, DGMT CEO, David Harrison and Mark Gamble from Educo Africa decided they were ready to pull together a group of people to thrash out the nuts and bolts of how the initiative could work: “We had chewed on the idea for […]
Incentivising youth employment: What is the Employment Tax Incentive?
During the delivery of the 2014/15 National Budget to Parliament Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan said that the youth employment tax incentive recorded 56 000 beneficiaries in its first month. What is he talking about? The Employment Tax Incentive is an incentive aimed at encouraging employers to hire young and less experienced work seekers. It came into […]
Nal’ibali: ‘Here’s the story’ – in your mother tongue!
By Dr. Carole Bloch, Director of the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA). Many English speakers look bemused at the thought of celebrating World Mother Tongue Day – what’s to celebrate? After all, it’s normal to use our mother tongue every day, isn’t it? No, it’s not! In a multilingual country […]
