Insights & Impact
Insights & Impact
Helping young people engage with opportunities outside of the formal sector
At 54%, South Africa has the highest youth unemployment rate in the world. At the forefront of this battle is Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, a not-for-profit organisation that finds jobs for young people across South Africa. Rob Urquhart, Head of Knowledge...
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Accelerating english through binge watching
“One language is poverty,” Annah told us. “Two languages is wealth,” she said, breaking into a smile. For a young woman who has been on the job hunt for nearly a year, she understood that despite having everything else employers were looking for, speaking English was...
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The cost of looking for work
We took a peek at the ITU’s (International Telecommunication Union – an agency of the UN) comparative price basket for a mobile-cellular sub-basket and looked at South Africa relative to the other countries we’re often pegged against in Africa (and...
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Getting to the meat of it – a demand for butchers
Strange but true; there’s a demand in South African for butchers. This scarcity is in part driven by the high cost of a year-long learnership to become a butcher (±R75,000 per candidate butcher) that the industry deems as the trusted credential of ability to do...
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