Aug 27, 2024 | Press, Statements
Youth Capital officially requested to the Acting Director General of the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL)and the Commissioner of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) to release the funds for the Basic Education Employment Initiative, in a letter dated Friday...
Aug 19, 2024 | Press, Statements
Advocacy campaign Youth Capital launch a national survey to quantify the true cost and impact of the mismanagement of the National Student Funding Aid Scheme (NSFAS) on young South Africans. ‘Our market outlook confirms that South Africa’s absorption rate in the...
Feb 14, 2024 | Press, Statements
Latest research by advocacy campaign Youth Capital confirms that eight in 10 young South Africans have to choose between looking for work and buying food because of the high cost of job hunting, quantified around R1469 per month, according to Youth Capital’s Beyond...
Feb 8, 2024 | Press, Statements
At the time of the State of the Nation Address, South Africa sees a stubbornly high youth unemployment rate, with 9.1 million young people who are not in education, employment or training; the majority of Grade 4 learners can’t read for meaning in any language; a...
Nov 14, 2023 | Press, Statements
The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey for Quarter 3 of 2023, released Tuesday 14 November 2023, indicates that 8.9 million young people between the ages of 15 and 34 years old are unemployed, and that 9.1 million young people are Not in Education, Employment or...
