GNU has mammoth task of creating employment for youth: Gwarube

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube says the Government of National Unity (GNU) has a mammoth task to ensure that more job opportunities are created for the country’s youth.

Gwarube says it is heartbreaking that many young graduates are still unemployed.

She’s part of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s engagement with youth beneficiaries of the Presidential Youth programmes under way in Gauteng’s Tshwane Region.

Gwarube says the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention Programme will help reduce pressure from educators and will upskill the youth.

“It’s heartbreaking and that is the reality of our unemployment crisis in SA. There are people who are educated, who find themselves applying just to be educators’ assistants. It’s heartbreaking because those people should be in full time employment.

We celebrate this opportunity for young people to be able to be upskilled and be in places of work for six months. But ultimately this is not the permanent solution, that’s for young people to find work.

That seven out of 10 young people who are without work today is an indictment, we have to work harder as the seventh administration to create jobs and permanent employment for people.”

Minster Siviwe Gwarube addresses the Inaugural Policy Dialogue