When my partner, Andrew Levy, and I were interviewed by Lesley Stones we believed she was to write an article profiling our community, Umuzi (No, YES is not a viable solution to sustainable youth employment, April 26). We hoped it would be a positive step towards raising awareness of the small but significant contribution Umuzi is making towards youth employment. We were naive. Stones turned the interview into a controversial take-down of the new Youth Employment Service (YES). The trouble with the article started with the headline and continued in the first paragraph: "The new YES scheme [sic], designed to create a million paid internships, wastes money by feeding people into low-skilled, dead-end jobs, the founders of the successful Umuzi Academy in Johannesburg argue." YES is in the planning phase. Little to no money has been spent on anything. Therefore, it would be illogical for anyone to claim it wastes money or places young people in dead-end jobs. This is where context and n...
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