Dr Patrice Motsepe’s charitable organisation, Motsepe Foundation, has pledged R100m towards a jobs fund to help alleviate SA’s unemployment crisis. Motsepe’s jobs fund comes after just a week the Statistics South Africa’s (StatsSA) released the country’s jobs data for the Read the full story
The Eskom Development Foundation, in partnership with the Education With Enterprise Trust (EWET), hosted a prize-giving ceremony in celebration of excellent youth entrepreneurship education on Thursday, 8 March 2018 at Birdswood High School in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal. The ceremony aimed Read the full story
Do not sell our RDP houses! We are sick and tired of corruption! These are some of the statements used by a group of protesters outside the Gauteng Legislature on Monday. They converged to demonstrate their anger towards officials who Read the full story
Bright by name. Bright by nature. Bright through sheer hard work and dogged determination participated in the Sasol Siyazenzela Youth Programme (SSYB) in 2015, facilitated with the assistance of female-owned Tushiyah Advisory Services. Today Secunda’s Bright Cirrel Hlatshwayo runs his Read the full story
Most young doctors prefer establishing their medical practices in busy city centres or shopping malls; however, this has not been the case with Siphesihle Dlamini (27) and his business partner Langelihle Ngubane (37). The young general practitioners have recently opened Read the full story
A learnership programme set up by the South African National Roads Agency (SOC) Limited (SANRAL) in the Western Cape district of Malmesbury is aimed at uplifting the community and addressing youth unemployment. The project is part of the agency’s commitment Read the full story
On 5 December 2017, government officials, key private and public sector stakeholders, media and the winning young entrepreneurs from the far corners of South Africa gathered at a glittering celebration of The 2017 STEP UP 2 A START UP YOUTH Read the full story
Vodacom and Innovator Trust have unveiled the Youth Entrepreneurship Programme (YEP), aimed at equipping local unemployed youth with the requisite set of skills to become cutting-edge entrepreneurs. The tailor-made youth development programme will drive innovations and create job opportunities that Read the full story
The recently-opened Klerefontein Training Centre, situated near the site of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the small Karoo town of Carnarvon, is giving local high school learners the opportunity to become qualified electrical engineers. Opened in May, the Read the full story
Growing up in Merebank outside Durban, close to Engen Refinery, Tevin Richard dreamt of becoming an engineer and being able to change his world for the better. Tevin attended Merebank Secondary School where he found that “maths and science just Read the full story