Tag: national digital transformation
REPORT | Education and internet access key for youth opportunities
The latest Stats SA’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) shows that 74.7% of youth (aged 15-24) in South Africa are unemployed. According to the expanded definition of joblessness, this takes youth unemployment to a 14 year record high in the first quarter of 2021.
Digital technology: a key to unlock SA’s economic growth potential
Government needs to take bold and rapid action to extricate the country from the economic quagmire in which it finds itself. The local economy is struggling to generate the growth needed to address high unemployment and inequality, as well as arrest the declining productivity that has eroded the country's global competitiveness.
