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Anc Today Voice of the African National Congress ANC TODAY VOICE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 18 – 24 June 2021 Conversations with the President WE ARE PUTTING YOUNG PEOPLE AT THE CENTRE OF OUR NATIONAL RECOVERY n Virtual address by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the occasion of Youth Day ORTY-FIVE years ago, a cruel and unjust system. They their lives. Others were forced brave young women and were rebelling against Bantu Ed- into hiding and exile. men in Soweto and other ucation, which, despite its name, parts of our country rose was no education at all. It was We remember Hector Pieter- Fup against injustice. Unarmed, another tool of the apartheid son, Tsietsi Mashinini, Mbuyisa and in their school uniforms, they system to keep black South Af- Makhubo, Sibongile Mthem- came out in their numbers, shout- ricans in servitude. bu-Mkhabela, Murphy Morobe, ing “down with Afrikaans.” Zweli Sizane, Seth Mazibuko On June 16th and in the days that and the many other heroes of the They were taking a stand against followed, many young people lost 1976 uprising. ANC pays tribute to Dear Mr President Key pillars for repositioning Zambian President A titan has fallen: the role of young people in Kenneth Kaunda Long Live KK! the NDR 6 8 12 2 ANC Today CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT The young South Africans of ideas. Young people have energy was confirmed in South Africa. 1976 spurred an international and talent. movement for the isolation of the The Intervention includes a range apartheid regime. They lit a fire of Young people are resilient and of priority actions to boost youth resistance that the racist govern- never give up, even when it is dif- employment over the next five ment of Pretoria would not be able ficult. Right now, our economy is years. to extinguish, no matter how hard suffering from the effects of the they tried. coronavirus pandemic. Our goal is to become a country where every young person has a When many of our leaders were A situation that was already bad, place to go – whether in further jailed or exiled, it was young peo- has gotten worse. We are putting education and training, in skills ple who showed the world that young people at the centre of our development, in work experience, freedom is not given, but it is taken. national recovery. in entrepreneurship, in youth service or in formal em- We salute them. We owe our lib- It is the singular focus of this ad- ployment. eration to them, and to the many ministration to ensure that young others who sacrificed so we could people are given access to oppor- Another initiative from which all be free. tunities so they can better them- young people have benefited selves, that they can drive change is the Presidential Employment South Africa is an infinitely bet- in their communities, and contrib- Stimulus that began in October ter place than it was in 1976. ute to our economy. last year. The Presidential Em- Young people have opportunities ployment Stimulus is now the that were denied to their parents As government we are driving largest public employment pro- and grandparents. And yet we a number of initiatives, some of gramme in our country, and is know that our challenges today which began before the pandemic. the fastest to reach such a large are many. Nearly 64% of young scale. people in South Africa are un- Although we have had to adjust employed. This is something no our plans, we will not go back on In the education sector alone, country can afford. our commitments. 320,000 young people have been placed as education assistants Young people are the force that We launched the Presidential and general assistants in 24,000 drives a country and grows its Youth Employment Intervention public schools across the country. economy. Young people are a in February last year, just weeks Of these, 65 per cent are young source of innovation and new before the first case of COVID-19 women. They are working with our learn- ers and helping to lighten the load for our educators. Our teachers and principals are telling us that this programme is making a big difference. Many of the participants were unemployed before being given this opportuni- ty. Now they are earning a living, enabling them to support them- selves and their families, and to purchase goods and services that support local economies. Through the Presidential Employ- ment Stimulus, 50,000 subsis- 3 ANC Today CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT tence farmers across the country have received input vouchers. Sixty per cent of these farmer are young people. Beneficiaries can use these vouchers to get inputs like feed, seeds, fertilizer and oth- er goods they need to produce food. As part of this programme, we brought in 2,000 young agricul- ture studies graduates to help with beneficiary verification. For the first time we now have a database of subsistence farmers in South Africa. The Presidential Employment Stimulus has also supported over 10,000 jobs in business process outsourcing, with most of these jobs going to the youth. Around 1,800 young people have been given jobs in a number of public works projects including the Welisizwe Rural Bridges Pro- gramme. potential into opportunity, we are through multiple channels. SAY- very pleased to officially launch outh.mobi has been zero-rated With funding from the stimulus, SA Youth, the national pathway by all mobile networks so that it 1,200 youth-owned micro enter- management network. can be accessed by young people prises have received support from from anywhere in the country at the National Youth Development This initiative brings together eight absolutely no cost. Agency. government departments led by the Department of Employment This will complement our existing Another successful programme and Labour, to form a network that efforts to create physical spaces that is continuing to create work will support young people to find where young people can go to opportunities for young black pathways into the economy. access information, opportunities South Africans is the Youth Em- and support. ployment Service, known as YES. We have forged strong partner- ships with the Harambee Youth This already includes the NYDA With the support of corporate part- Employment Accelerator and oth- centres and will include the 127 ners it has created 55,000 work er organisations to establish this labour centres operated by the experiences since its inception, network. Department of Labour and Em- injecting R3.1 billion in youth sala- ployment in every province. ries back into the economy. Through these partnerships, we have developed an online plat- I want to say thank you to the In the coming year, YES aims form called SAYouth.mobi. many opportunity providers who to double this to 100,000 quality have joined hands with us to work experiences. I want to make a call to young make this initiative a reality. South Africans to register on SAY- The Presidential Youth Employ- outh.mobi. You can create a pro- SAYouth.mobi is already support- ment Intervention will build on all file, view opportunities for learning ing over 1.4 million young people of these successes. To translate and earning, and receive support to access opportunities. These 4 ANC Today COMMENT & ANALYSIS support the employment of young people throughout the country – every district and every ward will benefit. We are establishing a Presiden- tial Youth Service that will create opportunities for young people to meaningfully contribute to their communities and develop critical skills to participate effectively in the economy. We are currently piloting a new model of skills development where training is linked directly to employment in key growth sectors of our economy. In its first phase, this will create training and job opportunities for young people in digital skills and global business services. This is in addition to the 137,000 learning opportunities that have been cre- ated through online courses in dig- ital skills by the National Electron- are young people like Joudon This ambition represents the scale ic Media Institute of South Africa Rooi from Stanford in the West- and impact that we can achieve and the Department of Communi- ern Cape and over 132,000 other through effective public-private cations and Digital Technologies. young people who found oppor- partnerships. tunities as education and school The SETAs will be advertising assistants through SA Youth. Today we are also launching opportunities to undertake learn- mPowa, a new platform in the erships and internships and to They include Mthandazo Shaba- SA Youth network developed by access bursaries for further edu- lala from Roodeport, who partic- the mLab in partnership with the cation. This includes opportuni- ipated in the Youth Employment Department of Science and Inno- ties in the chemicals, health and Service programme to access vation. It aims to provide young welfare, transport and insurance work experience and who was work-seekers and entrepreneurs sectors. able to secure a job. with information about services and support that is available in In the State of the Nation Ad- Then there is Segametsi Song- their area. This platform builds on dress this year, I reported that the wane from Hammanskraal who the success of the Youth Explorer, Department of Small Business successfully started a small busi- which has gathered and verified Development and the National ness with support from the Na- data on the services available to Youth Development Agency had tional Youth Development Agency, young people across the country. achieved their target of supporting and Nomzamo Xulu from KwaZu- 1,000 youth-owned enterprises in lu-Natal, a young entrepreneur This year, with the launch of SA 100 days, particularly in the town- who received support to start and Youth, the Presidential Youth Em- ship and rural economy.
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