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WATCH: How to tackle SA’s youth unemployment
Youth Employment Service Initiative CEO Tashmia Ismail-Saville talks to Business Day TV about the country’s unemployment crisis
24 June 2020 - 07:45
The unemployment rate hit an unprecedented high of 30.1% in the first quarter, with nearly 9-million of the country’s youth out of work.
In 2018, President Cyril Ramaphosa promised to tackle youth unemployment via his Youth Employment Service (YES) initiative, but the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown a spanner in the works...
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