Enterprising School Leavers
Youth will shape the South Africa of tomorrow – let’s get behind them today
Every January we as South Africans focus our full attention on the successes, and failures, of the education system as marked by the Matric results. We celebrate the individual shining examples of extraordinarily bright students, of inspiring principals that produce amazing results against all the odds, and take a step back to assess how we […]
Tags: Youth, Youth employment, Youth Identity
Posted on 17 February 2017
Create Change: Step Up for Young People
South Africa has a resource with the potential to transform our economic and social reality. Unfortunately, we are missing this opportunity: It should go without saying that investment in children and young people is the source of future human capital. They should be at the forefront of strategies for economic growth and development in SA. […]
Tags: Create Change, Game-Changing Leaders, Young people, Youth, Youth employment
Posted on 3 February 2017
Casting some light on the new 3 Stream Schooling System 2017
Over the last few months there has been talk of a new schooling system planned for South Africa. In January, a few online articles appeared but the detail has been lacking and equivocal. Through a discussion hosted by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) in February, we managed to unearth a little more. The […]
Tags: Enterprising School Leavers
Posted on 11 April 2016
Five things to think about beyond matric results
Every January the whole country focusses in on a single number: the matric pass rate. For many this number comes to define the state of young people, and we tend to leave the conversation there. But for school-leavers, the matric results are not just the end of one journey, they are the start of a […]
Tags: Enterprising School Leavers, Matric results, Supporting young people
Posted on 7 January 2016
The South African Child Gauge 2015: Youth – an opportunity to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty
The 10th issue of the South African Child Gauge, focusing on the theme of youth and the intergenerational transmission of poverty, was released last week on the 10th of November [2015] by the University of Cape Town’s Children’s Institute. It examines the situation of young people aged 15 – 24 and highlights the need for a range of interventions that continue to […]
Tags: Child Gauge, Enterprising School Leavers, Youth
Posted on 16 November 2015
The Work Preparation Programme: Facilitating the college to work transition
With the third highest youth unemployment rate in the world at 24.3%, creative solutions are required to enhance the work readiness and skills of school leavers in our country. Increasingly, across Africa as well as in Europe, technical and vocational skills development (TVSD) – or “the acquisition of knowledge, practical competencies, knowhow and attitudes necessary to […]
Tags: College to work transition, Enterprising School Leavers, FETI
Posted on 11 September 2015
What effect has the introduction of the Employment Tax Incentive had on youth employment probabilities in SA?
On 1 January 2014, the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) was introduced to encourage South African employers to hire young and less experienced work seekers. DGMT took a closer look at this initiative, exploring why it was introduced and how it was being implemented. More recently, the South Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), based at the University of Cape Town, explored what effect the […]
Tags: Employment Tax Incentive, Enterprising School Leavers
Posted on 9 December 2014
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 […]
Tags: Connection to Opportunity, Youth employment
Posted on 26 February 2014
Career Planet: Opportunities for youth through cellphone technology
70% of unemployed South Africans are aged between 15 and 35. Additionally, recent research reveals that 25% of unemployed South Africans have been job hunting, unsuccessfully, for at least 5 years. Not only do we clearly have a serious youth unemployment problem, we are also faced with the reality that a serious communication gap compromises […]
Tags: Career Planet, Cellphone technology, Connection to Opportunity
Posted on 18 February 2013
Focus on tertiary drop-out
100% In: The Supernews Tertiary Drop-out Superstage Supernews is a citizen-generated, citizen-funded news and idea network that encourages young South Africans to change the content of the news as we know it, one success story at a time, one big idea at a time to increase awareness, change systems and influence new ways of thinking; […]
Tags: Connection to Opportunity, Public Innovation, Tertiary Education
Posted on 30 October 2012
