Our youth are in crisis. In the words of Centre for Development and Enterprise head Ann Bernstein, “The SA economy is hostile to the young.” The country has 8,3-million (41%) young "neets" (not in employment, education or training). A grim reality. But what are we as a business community going to do about it?
Urgent structural change is required to turn around the economic inertia holding back our youth, and SA’s economy makes for a tentative business investment climate. An exception is SA's business process outsourcing sector, which exceeded its job creation target by 25.7% in the latter part of 2019. Many of our youth would find it difficult to break into the job market otherwise, due to circumstances beyond their control...
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