South Africa To Extend Mass Training For Unemployed Citizens

Unemployment is one of South Africa’s biggest tragedies. Statistics South Africa’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the first quarter of 2023 has painted a grim picture of the youth unemployment rate in the country, which increased by 1.1 percent to 46,5 percent this year. The writer says the spectre of youth unemployment in South Africa is a reminder that the liberation struggle has not yet fulfilled the Freedom Charter’s promises.

South Africa’s Department of Employment and Labour will extend the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s (UIF) Labour Activation Programme (LAP), set up to train those without permanent jobs, to several provinces. According to Thulas Nxesi, South Africa is in the middle of an ever-changing technological era and this requires adaptation. As such, he said, there was a… Continue reading South Africa To Extend Mass Training For Unemployed Citizens

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