Pule calls for stronger public-private partnerships to tackle youth unemployment

By Charmaine Ndlela 

Social Development Minister Dina Pule on Wednesday called for stronger partnerships between government and the private sector to tackle South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis, urging stakeholders to deliver practical solutions that create jobs, expand skills development and improve opportunities for young people.

Speaking at the opening of the Department of Social Development’s three-day National Youth Summit at Orion Safari Lodge in Rustenburg, North West, Pule said collaboration was essential to address persistently high youth unemployment and economic exclusion.

Held under the theme, Economic Uprising for the Next 50 Years: Partnerships for Skills, Jobs and Youth Development, the summit forms part of South Africa’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Youth Uprising.

It brought together young people, government, development partners and the private sector to discuss youth empowerment, entrepreneurship, skills development and employment.

“This is a noble platform to empower the youth of our country.