PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday that while South Africa is an infinitely better place than it was in 1976, the fact that nearly 64% of young people in South Africa are unemployed was something no country can afford.
“We launched the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention in February last year, just weeks before the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in South Africa,” said Ramaphosa.
“The Intervention includes a range of priority actions to boost youth employment over the next five years. Our goal is to become a country where every young person has a place to go – whether in further education and training, in skills development, in work experience, in entrepreneurship, in youth service or in formal employment.”
Ramaphosa was addressing the 2021 Youth Day event in KwaZulu-Natal.
Ramaphosa’s speech was delivered virtually, hours after he announced the implementation of level three of the national lockdown.
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