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BL Premium reports that on Wednesday in Pietermaritzburg President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the keynote address as the country commemorated Youth Day and the 45th anniversary of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising in which young people took to the streets in to fight against the apartheid regime.
He pointed out that SA’s inability to overturn the adverse socioeconomic conditions of young people and their exclusion from the economy has continued to undermine efforts to grow the country’s economy. “Nearly 64% of our young people are unemployed and this is something no country can afford. Young people are the momentum that drive a country and grow its economy. Young people are a source of innovation and new ideas because they have the energy and the talent,” Ramaphosa pointed out. He noted that the country’s gloomy economic situation had been further damaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, with the youth being severely affected as they were pushed further into the margins of the economy. Ramaphosa announced that his administration was launching yet another initiative, the National Pathway Management Network. “This initiative brings together eight government departments, led by the department of employment & labour, to form a network that will support young people to find pathways into the economy,” he indicated. Ramaphosa also called on SA’s youth to stop focusing on what the government could do for them and to use innovation to find ways in which they could help take the country forward.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Siviwe Feketha at BusinessLive (paywall access only)
- Read too, 'This is something no country can afford', says Ramaphosa on youth unemployment, at News24
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