With reference to your feature on youth unemployment, "Shining a light on jobs" (Features, November 9-15), Claire Bisseker validly points out the immense challenge of "bridging young people’s transition to the world of work and actually landing them their first job". She highlights the very valuable role that Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator is playing in the country as an independent not-for-profit social enterprise that was incubated by Yellowwoods in 2011. It has, in its six years of existence, helped more than 40,000 young people find their first jobs in partnership with 400 employers, from large corporates to small enterprises. The feature also serves to raise our awareness of the challenge millions of young people face in looking for work when they reside in townships far from economic nodes. The finding of the Siyakha study by the Centre for Social Development in Africa at the University of Johannesburg that the median unemployed young person spends R550/month on job sea...
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