Youth Matters

Investec launches Invest-ED as youth jobs take centre stage after SONA

Investec has launched Invest-ED, a national programme designed to support South Africa’s grade 8 to 12 learners and their parents or guardians, with guidance, confidence and future-focused thinking, to drive more meaningful participation in the...

Microsoft Online Safety Survey – building a safer digital future, together

Following Safer Internet Day, Microsoft has released its annual Global Online Safety Survey. This year marks the 10th year Microsoft has invested in surveying teens and adults around the world about their experiences and perceptions of life online...

Matric results highlight unemployment challenge as SMEs grapple for funding

With the 2025 matric results now released, a new cohort of young South Africans faces entry into a labour market that remains deeply constrained. South Africa’s official unemployment rate recently stood at about 32.9%, one of the highest...

Schools are on the frontline of SA’s youth mental health crisis

South Africa’s young people are facing an escalating mental health crisis. In 2022, more than 13% of our youth between the ages of 10 and 19 were living with a diagnosed mental disorder, with anxiety and depression accounting for nearly half of these...

Giving teenagers a pathway into the workshop could help solve South Africa’s artisan crisis

South Africa has an urgent problem hiding in plain sight. Our economy requires around 30,000 newly qualified artisans each year to keep infrastructure, construction and industry running, yet the country consistently produces far fewer than that. The...

Why Youth Employment Should Be a Business Strategy

By Thami Mbanjeni, Y.E.S. Implementation Manager, The BEE Chamber For many companies, transformation requirements such as B-BBEE compliance are still seen as an administrative burden. The Youth Employment Service (YES) initiative challenges that...

Shaping Tomorrow: Why Investing in Youth is More than CSR – It’s a Corporate Imperative

Charlene Kotze, Human Resources Manager, Henkel South Africa In an era defined by volatility, transformation, and widening inequality, the conversation around talent must begin far earlier than at the hiring table. At Henkel South Africa, we believe...

Why Every Teenager Needs a Mental Health Screening

In February this year South African news outlets shared heartbreaking reports of a 14-year-old in Cape Town who allegedly died by suicide after being bullied. The news came just two months after two grade 10 learners in Limpopo tragically took their...

Technology as a Tool for Youth Empowerment in South Africa

Zulaikha Goolam, iSchoolAfrica Disability Inclusion & Accessibility Programme Manager It is unwise to underestimate the influence and capacity for radical transformation of which our youth is capable. On 16 June 1976, thousands of young South...
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