By Charmaine Ndlela
The Presidential Youth Employment Intervention (PYEI) recorded 155,166 new earning opportunities during the fourth quarter of the 2025/26 financial year, from January to March this year, bringing the total number of opportunities accessed through the initiative to more than 2.9 million since its launch in 2020.
Deputy Minister in the Presidency Nonceba Mhlauli said the latest results demonstrate steady progress in tackling youth unemployment through coordinated partnerships between government, the private sector and civil society.
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More than 5.9 million young people have registered on the SA Youth platform since the programme’s inception, while 5.36 million are registered on the government’s Employment Services of South Africa (ESSA) database. The PYEI is an overarching inititaive With a number of programmes. The largest of these is the Basic Education Employment Initiative (BEEI) which hires teacjer assistants for
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