Harnessing young entrepreneurs to deliver SA from jobs crisis
While tertiary education is often depicted as the route to economic freedom, school leavers should be encouraged to start companies
27 July 2020 - 06:00
SA’s economic growth, sluggish before Covid-19, is now under severe strain. At this point, it’s hard to see when the pandemic will no longer be an issue and where the jobs will come from.
The government’s National Development Plan (NDP) projects that by 2030, some 90% of new employment opportunities, at least 11-million of them, will be created by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). However, this is looking increasingly unlikely in the face of stubborn unemployment rates and brutal job losses due to the pandemic...
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