Youth Unemployment | Big business calling for business-led solutions

Leaders from corporate South Africa and the global social impact sector have pledged to pool resources to find solutions to the country’s high youth unemployment.

The stakeholders gathered for a high-level engagement in Sandton to explore how corporate volunteering can be transformed from ad hoc, once-off initiatives, into a coordinated, strategic driver to address youth unemployment.

Currently, about 5.7 million young South Africans are sitting at home without a job and are inactive in the economy – a situation experts describe as a recipe for disaster. Big business is now calling for aligned, business-led solutions.

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