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Social impact bonds addressing youth unemployment

by Steven | Jul 23, 2019 | Featured, Harambee in the News

In the nascent impact bonds market, employment is one of the most popular sectors, representing nearly a third of the deals contracted globally. After a year of implementation, the first social impact bond(SIB) in South Africa—the Inclusive Youth Employment Pay for...

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It’s all about employability

by Steven | Jun 3, 2019 | Featured, Harambee in the News

The numbers released last month by Stats SA remind us that we have an unemployment crisis in South Africa, especially among youngsters. More than two-thirds of young people in the country cannot find work, yet businesses regularly report that they can’t find the...

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High unemployment is a symptom of South Africa’s economic malaise

by Steven | Apr 26, 2019 | Harambee in the News

After leaving school in 2006 Delvia Mbalati spent the next 12 years looking for a job. Her search took her from her village in Limpopo, a province in the north of the country, to Johannesburg, where she spent a year studying for a qualification at a college which...