South Africa – Why should you care – School levers and JOB’s

On average we have 1,000,000 children starting school every year. But we have a 56% school drop-out rate that would mean that around 560,000 children are leaving school without a high school certificate of any sort. That also means that we have 440,000 leaving with a high school certificate.

Some going to college, some going to university and some just looking for jobs.

Here is the problem, Stats SA unveiled the results of the QLFS for the second quarter of 2022 showing that the biggest job gains were recorded in Community and Social Services (‪276 000), Trade (‪169 000), Finance (‪128 000) and Construction (‪104 000).

So the total number of jobs created were 677,000 but there were also job losses. If we had a million school levers and we not even going to look at certificates, then that means the unemployed people in the country grew by 323,000 people. If we multiply that by the last 10 years, we have grown the number of unemployed people in South Africa by 3,230,000.

I believe these number are conservative, I would say we have grown the unemployed population in South Africa by 5 million in the last 10 years.

The solution is to help the people in poor communities to become self-employed, entrepreneurs and small business owners. This is what we do through out project “Uplift A Nation.”

The New Nation Education NPO www.newne.co.za