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BusinessLive reports that government has vowed to prioritise science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics at schools to equip the youth with skills to meet technological advances.
Addressing scores of young people on Sunday at a Youth Day event in Polokwane, Limpopo, President Cyril Ramaphosa said: “Our young people need the necessary tools that they can use to navigate the changes these bring to the workplace and seize the opportunities that they present.” He noted that coding and data analytics were being introduced as school subjects in accordance with commitments made at last year’s Presidential Jobs Summit. “We agreed on a number of initiatives to accelerate the skilling of our young people to take advantage of jobs in the tech sector, as well as in installation, maintenance and repair jobs,” Ramaphosa pointed out. The president also promised that government would introduce more technical high schools so that young people who wanted to follow a technical route to acquire skills that were needed in the economy had the opportunity to do so from a very young age. Ramaphosa acknowledged that youth unemployment remained a national crisis, with over half of South Africans aged 15 to 24 unemployed. However, he called on the private sector to get involved.
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