Why SA youth aren't finding employment
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Executive chair of the South African Youth Economic Council Bonga
Makhanya says there are many reasons why the South African youth are
not finding employment.
Makhanya says the country's education system is not working well as it
should, and that the private sector is not absorbing enough skilled
young people.
Tune into Newzroom Afrika DStv channel 405 for more.
There are so many smart young people in South Africa that need to replace the pensioners in government.
True
True just need the experience to prove they can do it!
Indeed especially in parliament.
Tired irrelevant pensioners jst to be precise😅
Young educated ppl will learn as they go + will do a better job than ppl with only failed communist exposure to their credit. If only the masses will trust them with their votes.
"POLITICIANS WILL NEVER LET THEIR KIDS WORK FOR MINIMUM WAGE"
'Exploitation can never be a foot in the door' I got my first real job at a local entertainment centre and I had this mindset of I didn't care how much or how little they will pay I just wanted an opportunity, I was tired of staying home but what resulted was we were exploited. We worked exhausting long hours, saved the owners huge bucks instead of them hiring more staff in return for about -R3k a month. As time went I realised you can't survive on that amount with high food prices, high fuel prices which translate to high transport costs etc. I quit and learnt a very valuable lesson there. Make sure you are compensated well.and fairly, stick with your duties and responsibilities in your employment contract, nothing more nothing less
Some jobs can cost you more than they're making you. that time you can't even use your spare time on side hustles or invest in gaining more skills because they take all aspects of your life. "Exploitation can never be a foot in the door" is one hell of a line.
I have always said working for less than 6k after tax with a degree is really a slap in the face I wouldn't except because you cant afford medical aid funeral policy clothes food nothing so what are you working 4 honestly
Tht opportunity gave you experience which allowed you to find better work.
I would work with no pay for a year if it meant I could get tht experience to use elsewhere, but I'm not allowed to because of minimum wage laws which leads to hiring those with experience instead.
I agree in part- Many companies in the private sector underpay in order to save on employee taxes and just to spoil the ones on top, especially graduates. Im in Cape Town and many of these fonkong "professional" firms abuse their staff with that low wage. Its sickening to the point where you hate getting up for work every day and lack motivation. Starting low is fine, but they refuse to give yearly increases as workers with more experience should make them more marketable. Instead, they are threatened with loosing their job and asked repeatedly " are you in this for the money only or do you love your career?". That question bugged me and i hated the owner for that. I say agree partly because there is an aspect called loyalty, and if a worker keeps job hopping in order to get a higher salary, they will never really have a good reference on their Cv's as well building relationships with company owners which is key for any work place. Lastly, chasing the money also brews Entitlement which i feel is a huge problem nowadays where individuals refuse to do the work but want to get paid handsomely. I mean look at most of the workers in council. Just overall lack of effort but a lekker pay package every year. So yah.
EXPLOITATION CAN NEVER BE A FOOT IN THE DOOR!!!
Bonga knows his story 👌👌👌
I like this young man, how he articulate his statement is on par, I think SA has a future leader in this one.
The economy can't create jobs with the amount of state-level corruption we're currently faced with.
True we are fighting a rigid system
What we need are people who understand the spaces that they governing.
Someone with a qualification, passion and experience in arts and culture should be a Minister of Arts and culture
Someone with a qualification in Sports Management and passion for sports should be a Minister of Sports
And this young man right here should be Advisor to the President!
This guy is so well spoken. He says all the right things. Inspirational.
Listening to young people like Bonga gives one so much hope about the future of this country, the continent and just humanity in general. Brilliant mind bringing such cogent and persuasive arguments.
we have alot of smart youth that can build this country
LOL
Our politicians have no idea what they are talking about. Bonga makes a lot of sense. Keep up the good work.
Just check what qualifications they have , trust me bhutwam you'll lose hope
And even nalabanayo I higher education qualification it's not the one for the job they have , start with Bheki cele
Floyd shivambu speaks about this all the time bro
He made a few errors though, but evidently more educated than most politicians
But he’s mistakes about private sector. Private sector does not crate employment government does. Private sector doesn’t run charities it is up to the government to put policies and create the economy that will allow for more employment. If companies could get people to work for free they would do it, they can’t because if government policies.
@@Breadbuzy well said, pvt sector has a duty to its share holders, also there should be an incentive for growth for them, if a big company invests in growth and more hirings etc, give them a tax break of tax reduction etc
Makhanya is 100% correct!!!
excellent interview by Bonga!
This guy knows Economics and Labour Law
This young man speaks so much sense ....I haven't had such good articulation in many years
Some of us are really not looking for employment but rather investment in our SMME's but neither is Government or existing commercial entities are investing in SMME's therefore we are forced to ride the wave of slow growth. There is too much focus on "employment" shift the focus to job creation through entrepreneurship. We have many skilled graduates whom the country can invest in helping them start their own businesses. I believe if government approaches the problem from this angle, then the dependency on the few commercial companies will shrink.
Bro I'm also in the same space (SMMEs) and I agreed with you 100%
My sentiments exactly!
Exactly!
I agree I'm looking for funding my own business I gave up looking 4 a job coz honestly companies are not offering decent pay
Some feel like scam, you present your Plan and idea it gets rejected them few months down the line booom! Someone with support of that institution is using the exact same idea in the same area proposed. Yoh!
This Leader needs to be protected at all times. SA Youth still needs him .
The existence of oligopolies is precisely the issue. Fundraising in SA is extremely difficult, not to mention attaining permits and licenses from this dysfunctional government.
Points taken: Informal sector does not exist in SA.l stayed in SA for more than 8 years and I studied Computer systems in SA and could not find a job but l acquired skills in Plumbing, Welding and Electrical systems. These are the skills you will never find in most SA youth, l have never met a young south African builder, plumber and they actually think those are not an actual profession.
I make a lot of money from these skills
True
Why would I break my back just to make peanuts
@@badge5575the average millionaire is contractor in construction welding pays better than a random office job a skilled welder is paid more money even in the USA is like that too welder makes money than an office administrator or even accountant.People whop produce stuff, fix stuff get paid more than those who push papers
SA has a lot of people with good skills. What happens and I do not know how did it happen that Zimbabweans and Nigerians took over departments like EDUCATION, HEALTH, ECONOMY. For example how can doctors not be employed ? Why do we prefer Cubans, Nigerians, Congolese over our own blood? It is time, really it is time. We need to go back to the drawing board, it will be worse with EFF.
Simple they're cheaper than us and so employers prefer them for profits.
Yep, cheaper labour and also some of these jobs are being bought.
Are saying there are more Zimbabweans, Congolese and Nigerians employed, than South Africans in those sectors you mentioned?
In private schools, you will find the majority of educators Zimbabweans, and in retail and construction, the majority are Malawians and Zimbabweans
When you say with EFF it will be worse, only time will tell.
Time will tell who will save SA. I dont see hope in all directions.
@@sofiyabammukardam4119 ActionSA
First person in politics I've heard that makes sense
You can change minimum wage, unemployment is a much bigger problem than a minimum wage. You get 30 year older here in SA that have never worked! You could make it that from 18 - 25 yrs there could be a low wage so young people can get out of the house and get skills and meet colleagues. You can't have a high minimum wage when you have 40% unemployment in a country its ludicrous!
Agreed. the 30 yr old that hasn't worked is very prevalent
Well put. I wish Afrika was led by the youth. We would be much further by now.
Well put Bonga👌🏾👏🏾
Government doesn't pay grants, HARD working tax payers pay grants! No one minds helping the needy but not half the population!
Absolutely I couldn't agree with you more
True, every year government gets around R1.5 trillion in tax.
According to SARS stats which makes up that total:
(PIT) Personal Income tax: 35.5%
(VAT) Value Added tax: 25%
(CIT) Corporate Income tax: 20.7%
(OT) Orher tax: 18.8%
Combining PIT and VAT: The common worker contributes to 60.5% of the governments total tax. However, people who gets grants also pay VAT, and the tax gets recycled via workers and businesses paying tax.
I looked up our debt situation and it's not looking good. On the intrest alone we are throwing away R1 bil a day.
That means we are throwing away around R365 bil (24% of all our tax money) every year. Money that could've been used to help people.
On the one side there has to be cashflow from businesses to stop monopolies and give other businesses a chance to grow.
On the other end government needs to pay off their debt, monitor their spending and who they are spending it to. Also not run businesses.
We don't need monopolies and dictatorships. In both cases the people suffer.
That problem goes away when you finally allow more youth into job opportunities
@@wukong5342 Another 'you' problem. Well then why don't 'you' start a business and hire young people.? See if it's profitable without stable infrastructure.
I work for someone, I don't 'hire'. This is an 'us' problem, not a 'you' problem.
Anyone can learn how to do a job if they don't already have qualifications. the problem is racial quotas, government mismanagement and a broken economy. Companies are rewarded for employing X number of a certain race over another and companies don't have the budget to employ enough people so they either retrench the ones they have or don't hire in the first place. Another problem is "lack of experience" if you're 18-25 how can you have experience if no one wants to give you that opportunity to gain some. Its not a mismatch of skills
3 answers for this problem:
1. Young people are not applying to enough jobs. For instance they should be applying to at least 10 to 20 jobs a day, no joke.
2. They are not voluntaring enough or advancing their skills on they're own. The internet today allows you to somewhat develop yourself and practice what you studied in school. You have to teach yourself skills if you can.
3. Companies today want an already made employee, They don't like training or developing interns or graduates. So even if you have education or qualifications is you don't have experience which just means do you know how to do the job, they won't hire you.
My suggestion to the youth is what ever job you want Try to do the job without being employed, almost like an entrepreneur for that position. You don't have to be successful you just have prove you can do the job. And then when you go for interviews you must display your capabilities show rather then tell.
To get the interviews is easy just apply like crazy.
Personal, I know my industry, I know my strengths, I know my skills. I applied to at least 10 to 15 jobs a day. It might take a few months but you will get a job if you do the thing I outlined. I also constantly learn new skills on CZcams and practice those skills in my job and in my personal capacity.
And there is computer software technology that is required to have advanced knowledge of, such as Microsoft office suite, SAP ERP system, Google cloud based systems & many others if you have a Business degree and want to work in medium to large scale companies.
Thank you. This is very insightful. It's true we must become fanatics of life-long learning. Sometimes, these skills can eventually allow you to venture into your own lucrative idea.
This is a good suggestion. However, even if we all upskill ourselves and take initiative to practise and utilise our skills in diff places while jobsearching, it will not solve the problem of a high unemployment rate. There aren't enough jobs to absorb everyone who is unemployed or to even half the unemployment rate. That is the bigger issue.
Thank you. NUMBER 1 is very important & we don't talk about it. Typing out 1 CV and sending it to 5 companies a week is not job-seeking.
You need to send atleast 5CV a day. Each CV must be custom-made for the role you're applying for.
Don't apply on the last day of the application date, don't send colourful CVs & don't have spelling errors.
Everyone has a phone with internet access. But, they spend the whoooooole day on WhatsApp, instead of taking free online courses.
They don't use don't same phone to join free online work-simulation programs & paying online freelancing programs.
They don't use the internet to learn to be better spoken
@@samukeloradebe6633 People can work abroad, and freelance online for international companies. There are roles
Half way through the video and I'm moved by his expressions- keep it up Bonga! we need more of such thinking.
Wow Makhanya ngeke mfethu you need to speak more !!!! I am Impressed.
Bonga is a brilliant young man. Makes sense, knows his story and tells it we'll. Keep up the great work, we need more leaders of this caliber. The future is in good hands for sure
It's not only the youth that isnt finding a job its adults too everyone in 3rd world countries
This young man is brilliant. With a youth leader like him, and the way in which he thinks, the future of the young is bright
They are gonna neutralize him'💔
@@matthewsditlhake sadly
He must be from private school. Government schools disaster
This problem actually starts at the Basic Education level, there are so many problems there alone. If the roots of a tree are dead, the tree won't thrive
"exploitation can never be a foot in the door!" 📌
Very intelligent a true economist
The whole job system right now is just a mess , learnership need degrees instead of just Matric and vocational certificates, employment age limit is up to 35 where in real fact life just started . Universities are full soo education for some isn't attainable because people at home cannot afford . Like everything really is just a mess , nothing right now is for the youth honestly , we live in the past and we are not looking at present and future
Government is just a spectator. Government should be leading by making sure the environment is conducive for private sector to create jobs. Government does not care,because is leaderless and does not have vision is visionless. There are so many things that can be done. How are so wish ANC must get off power.
Government is under control of Putin.
Brilliant interview Bonga!! Wow!! So proud of you. 🎉
this was a pretty good conversation, let's keep conversations like this informative interview. SA has a lot of potential and the youth are ready to work and build this nation.
Wow and they call us monkeys , with young people like this men S.A future looks bright.
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It's all talk, the economy is white owned and can't be changed by words.
Government still depends on posting or physical handing as a form of submission of job application. Photocopying it's pricey, certifying through commissioner of oath its a effort. Posting its added costs considering that SAPO doesn't function. In between to access all this facilities you need bus fare which unemployed they can't even raise. Above all the system works against the poor and unemployment.
Makhanya perceptive is a true reality of a daily young unemployed person its sad that the youth has to over explain themselves in order to get reasonable resources to live and function in the economy. 30 years on this democracy young people are kept as an after thought they only became a topic of importance in the polls.
What an eloquent conversation driven by the guest. I'd love to follow this movement
Talent without opportunity means nothing.
what an eloquent speaker
Companies nowadays create employment via internships and apprenticeships having about 500 people on an internship only to hire two or people in the end
He is hitting the nail on the head.
Because GROOVE first, WORK later mentality!
Nope. Not everyone does that maybe the youth you surround yourself with but dont speak for all the youth....
@@faith9224 whatever affects a vast majority automatically depicts the entire population the truth is that a vast majority of our youth are grooving instead of acquiring tangible skills that will qualify them within an employment sector/ to sustain themselves independently
Council this, association this, forum that! Just another politician doing his thesis! Too much theory dololo practice.....
Bonga great interview
Plus, we should change the question to- Why are not business minded? There is a reason.
Impeccable interview !!!
I would work for less than minimum wage if I could, just to stsrt me out. It sucks tht I don't have tht power
I am him and he is I!!!
Very insightful, thank you and you're such a well-spoken and compassionate man!
What a blessing this young man is. Cutting through the lies and nonsense!
Bonga is an intellectual
I like how he dealt with the opposition parties questions and suggestions 😂
It's sad how we are acting like this life is rocket science
14:07 there is no one without skills.everyone has something to offer. Yet i agree with half of the things he says.
if what you offer is not what the market want then it is useless..and you consequently have no skill, or no useful skill
@@imaniraks77Exactly! Our Minister of Education has announced twice in the previous years that the youth should stop choosing career paths under Law & teaching because there is already a large number of lawyers & teachers who are unemployed. Then there are those that choose to study careers that have no demand 🤔 I guess career guidance needs to be a frequent practice in schools to avoid wasting time getting a qualification that won't work for you in the future while accumulating scholarship debt.
Great insights, Bonga.
Oh Wonder full Good specific words you are talking I am proud of you . ❤❤
We need more people with such ideas and plans for the youth to have them implemented.
Bonga cooked this interview 🎉
Why isn't Big Business investing in more job creation projects ?
This was such a intelligent conversion. Well done would like to see more
Where can i listen more content of this guy cause his correct in his points
I quit my job at a call center because they did not pay me enough. They made high commission entry so that only the best of the best can earn commission, they made us work 11 hours a day without overtime and they yelled at us all the time for not reaching target even though only the best of the best could reach target. In each team only one person reached target every two days. This shows that they engineered their KPI to be exploitative. Many of us are now unemployed because we refuse to be exploited. Imagine having a job but you cant buy alcohol, you can afford a well balanced diet, your unhealthy groceries can't even last a month, and you barely have enough for transport.
Because they are comfortable where they are, this is why they not voting out anc.
As you call for minimum wage, you should have addressed the elephant in the room which is a fact that companies are avoiding hiring South Africans due to the same labour policies like minimum wage.... I can guarantee you, 70-80% of waiters in Pretoria are foreign nationals now, probably 50% of nurses are foreign nationals
90% or so of farm workers are Mozambicans and Zimbabweans
Leader of the Youths & Speaker of the Truth
Brilliant explanation my brother, EFF says it too but hey.
First time seeing this gent, uyayazi into yakhe
I believe in South Africans so much, especially those guys with SMMEs. The government must aggresively invest in uplifting small business, black people must be involved in the economy across all sector and the government has a huge role in enabling that.
Looking at history, you will see how the National party played an integral part in assisting the Afrikaaner farmers with land, resources and skills uplifment, some where sent for training in Europe. These big private schools we see today with hectares of land, the banks, insurance companies, mines, etc but the ANC government is too invested in white companies to invest in black.
I mean who cares about a black farmer when I have shares in a big Afrikaaner's farming business, that's the reality we face with politicians.
The DA is not afraid to take a stand and fight for white folks.
But the issue is that unlike NP the black youth don’t have the same opportunity of chasing away other races as easily to build thier own businesses, the constitution allows expropriation but no one’s uses it 😢
The spaza shop sector is worth R 900 Billion and he is demonizing it, he is lost
And this can be used to develop big black owned retailers!
The idea sold to the youth needing to earn a living wage with no experience is the problem. I think they should be employed and increments of increase depends on the progress made on merit. Im not saying this is the answer but need to be addressed with this in mind.
I thought that it was common knowledge that experience rules in the work force but also having the academic proof puts you way ahead of the rest or more likely to be employed since you have both qualifications & experience. I guess it's because I grew up at a time where hard work was said to have better outcomes & thanks to that I was able to seek experience whenever I had the time for example, during school holidays I worked. This mentality exposed me to many opportunities & people since I was seen as a hard working individual plus having a lot of experience from different jobs does come in handy.
The issue lies within the education system and the prevalent skills mismatch in the workforce. Income grants should serve as a temporary solution until the unemployed individuals acquire the necessary skills to successfully enter the job market and secure sustainable employment. This necessitates a comprehensive approach to address the root causes of unemployment, including enhancing the quality and relevance of education and training programs, fostering partnerships between educational institutions and industries to align curricula with market needs, and providing targeted support for skills development and vocational training initiatives. By equipping individuals with the requisite skills and competencies demanded by employers, we can empower them to contribute meaningfully to the economy and achieve long-term financial independence and stability.
the government must pass laws that are business friendly,low tax for businesses,incentives for businesses that hire young people and give them experience.Enforce the law to keep the country safe and service delivery.Protect our industries from foreign companies that dump their products in the country.
Westville Boys High represent!
Small and Medium Enterprises can change the SA cause the government doesn't care about those at all
mara we don't have an economy la😢
and they praise this man... blaming the it from the "1960's"?
It's not growing the way it should.
This young man is very sound ! He is definitely advancing from the Left !
I respect this guy...he knows his story...fuck!
Absolutely loved this interview 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
Encourage decentralization! Boost small towns and connect rurals to functioning small towns. Hello we can't all squable for the same city opportunity. There are jobs to be created to uplift our country yet we would prepare to destroy the existing so thst the tender comes to refix it then to actually go fix things in Rurals or small cities. Then we could service those people and lawyers, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, stores selling local foods would run and there advertisers to boost all this, even encourage natural tourism. Come on SA man . All this potential wasted
13:21 That guy mustn't lie about Action SA. They have no such policy against minimum wage. Here is their policy: Universal Basic Income Stimulus
3. Other highlights
» Introduce a three-year universal basic income stimulus (UBIS) that transfers
monthly cash payments to all eligible South Africans, calculated at the food
poverty line in year one, the lower-bound poverty line in year two, and the
upper-bound poverty line in year three.
page 38. He must come back and correct it.
If you want to incentivise those who have economic power in South Africa, to participate in the country's social and economic upliftment, common sense would tell you to make said country's social fabric more inviting and friendly to them. You can't show a person the middle-finger at every turn, then turn around and say they must invest in employing your children and siblings too. Black people are the majority in SA, if the country does well they benefit the most by virtue of this fact, the same is true on the converse when the country is doing bad, this political obsession with race only hurts black people because the very same people these idealogies demonize, are the ones with all the power, and they definitely won't share or use their wealth to uplift people who openly display grudges and hate for them. I agree with the minimum wage, and believe it should be increased even, but employment equity should be scrapped completely as it discourages economic investment in South Africa. Remember the race based policies of apartheid benefited white people because the holders of capital and power where white, and the most powerful continent both then and now was and is Western Europe. Race based policies now in South Africa fail because black people still don't have any true economic power, and the African continent is one of, if not the poorest and militarily weakest on Earth (The state of California in America has a higher GDP than the entire African continent), so there is no power base to sustain black race based socioeconomic policies, instead these policies need Western and white capitalists to truly be sucessful, which is an extremely naive and somewhat deluded viewpoint. If South Africa can focus purely on making the country appealing to both international and national investors, black people would benefit more in a year of sole economic investment based strategies, than they have in 30 years of BEE and employment equity based policies.
Government must assist with tender to grow business and employ unemployed people that's a good decision to avoid more unemployedment
Interesting young man... People who we needed to challenge exploitation
Forcing businesses to use their profits to grow economic is wrong. JSE companies, etc, have borrowed, raised money to trade. Now that those companies are making a profit, its their prerogative if they choose to. Especially with the government not making it conducive to re-invest.
Business main aim is to make money. This is something communists don't understand and why communism is so unsuccessful.
Absolutely. Removing regulations is dangerous. Also I am a firm believer that the private sector is not using the skills coming out of universities enough and they need it. They have so many issues that young people can solve for them but they want them with 100 years experience which makes no sense. And in order for business to continue, they need young people to keep it going
Refreshing outlook on the unemployment crisis !! Weneed him in Parliament or maybe a party of his own? Brilliant young man, exceptional young man.
And another thing that could've increased job opportunities was investing more on rural arreas rather than putting all the funds on cities, reason being on rural areas housingband land is more affordable than in cities so if the government took that route by building Malls and other factories, earning R3500 wouldn't been an issue since most people would afford to have basic needs like housing unlike in townships
the kid took the old man to the cleaners bra!!!. SA YOUTH i think we can run this country
An excellent rebuttal of the misguided idea that disempowering worker is the only path to economic growth which is constantly paraded by the free market parties.
This young man is brilliant!
It all closes down to the school not trying or putting effort into those who need more attention.
I'm yet to see a country that gives Permits to other countries when they have the highest unemployment rate in the world. We can talk as we want this is the cause of thr ANC , they have made this !
Brilliant!!! To the future 🥂
Protect the vulnerable from "From greedy capitalists". The young man has never started a business. You don't start a business to "protect the vulnerable", that is government's job, and that is why we all pay tax.
Once we have paid tax we owe no one anything further. No? The profits are our reward for the risk taken to create value.
Unfortunately youngster here still lives in that world where you finish school and are suddenly owed a job buy someone.. or else there will be trouble.
The SA government is staunchly positioned against entrepreneurship and makes no effort whatsoever to promote or encourage startup culture. Instead SAns are conditioned to look to government for everything. That is not sustainable, and at the rate we are going, the middle class that has been funding it all is leaving... meaning the gravy train is grinding to a halt soon.
Well articulation