Feb 18, 2025 | Blog, Jobs
The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey SA for quarter 4 of 2024 confirms that youth unemployment remains a crisis, with young South Africans continuing to have the highest unemployment rates in the country hindering equality and economic growth. According to Stats...
Jan 20, 2025 | In the news, Press
Young people make up half of South Africa’s working-age population. Yet 8 out of 10 have never had a job before. So, in 2023, when the Basic Education Employment Initiative (BEEI) advertised work opportunities for 245 000 young people across 23 000 schools, the...
Sep 20, 2024 | In the news, Press
Following on the status of the funding for the Basic Education Employment Initiative, advocacy campaign Youth Capital wrote to the Acting Director General of the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) and the Commissioner of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) on...
Nov 3, 2023 | Press, Statements
Advocacy campaign Youth Capital cautiously welcomes the Minister of Finance’s decision to extend the Presidential Employment Stimulus by one year, announced during the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement tabled on Wednesday 1 November 2023. Youth Capital has been...
Nov 3, 2023 | Blog, Youth Capital Campaigners
Did you tune into the Medium-term budget policy statement on Wednesday afternoon? We did, and we have some exciting news ????! If you have supported the petition, YOU were one of 16 000 people who signed the petition to extend the Presidential Employment Stimulus....
