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Gauteng premier hands 6,000 appointment letters to solar trainees

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PanyazaLesufiBL Premium reports that Department of Employment & Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has called for broader co-operation between provincial and national government departments to arrest the unemployment scourge in the country.

SA has a high unemployment rate and the youth unemployment rate is much worse. Gauteng has about 582,000 discouraged job seekers, while unemployment stands at 2.6-million. This has spurred Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi to implement a number of initiatives including training and employing crime wardens colloquially called “AmaPanyaza”. On 16 June, Lesufi launched the Nasi Ispani initiative to address high joblessness in the province. On Thursday at an event held at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, he handed 6,000 appointment letters to the first cohort of the solar technician trainees. The programme, which forms part of the Nasi Ispani campaign, is in partnership with the manufacturing, engineering and related services sector education and training authority. Opposition parties, however, have criticised the Nasi Ispani campaign, saying it was an electioneering gimmick by Lesufi ahead of the 2024 provincial and national elections. “Please ignore naysayers, the opposition will attack you no matter what you do. Keep your focus on young people. You’ve made a valiant start with the Nasi Ispani programme. Keep up the good work,” Nxesi told Lesufi. Lesufi previously reported that 8,000 of the funded posts in the province had attracted more than 1.2-million applications, highlighting the unemployment plight and how desperate people were for work.

  • Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
  • Read too, Panyaza Lesufi's govt offers jobs, business opportunities to Gauteng's youth, at News24


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