ZIPHO SIKHAKHANE: Learn from youth's street smarts
Informal learning helps mould new leaders
WITH Youth Day having been celebrated this week, at a time when the economy is in the state it is, I cannot help but be reminded of the increasing role that today's young people will play in driving economic growth. They are the leaders of tomorrow who must be groomed today. They will be responsible for ensuring that our businesses and institutions are led in ways that will help us revive growth and achieve the long-term goals of the country. They will also need to learn how to become the kind of leaders who understand how to build an economy that creates opportunities for the youth, especially when all the numbers show that Africa will have the world's biggest and youngest population of working age within a few decades. This is something we need to turn into an advantage, rather than a disadvantage. We have not yet learnt how to enable our young people to start playing a bigger role in the economy. This is a puzzle that needs to be solved, otherwise we risk losing out on the value ...
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