702 People’s Dialogue: Calls for revitalisation of skills development structures to help tackle unemployment
The country’s latest unemployment rate is 32.9%, with most being youth.
Radio 702’s People’s Dialogue. Picture: X/Radio702
JOHANNESBURG - Some 702 listeners present at the People’s Dialogue have called for the revitalisation of skills development structures in the country to help tackle unemployment.
The country’s latest unemployment rate is 32.9%, with most being youth.
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Assembly of the Unemployed coordinator, Prince Majola, said more funds were needed to address this crisis.
"Why aren't they taking that R700 million and making sure that those retrenched teachers, those unemployed doctors, they get to be paid and then services are rendered? We are having 28 schools, I know, in Soweto that have been closed because they didn't meet a threshold of having adequate learners."
A listener, Thembeka Hlongwane, added that there was a need for organisations that invest in skills development in communities.
"When are we creating structures that will really create jobs for the community, not want everyone to be a lawyer, a doctor, because we need people to use their hands. It's all good and well to say, let the government give them money, but I don't think that will be a solution to the problem we have with unemployment."