# EFF leader Julius Malema has criticised the government of national unity, accusing it of failing to address the country’s youth unemployment crisis. He addressed supporters during the party’s Youth Day Rally at the Union Buildings in Pretoria yesterday. Malema argued that government resources should be directed towards ensuring every child has access to education […]
# DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has appealed to all young people to register to build a South Africa that works for everyone. He addressed the party’s Rock the Registration Youth Day Rally in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, yesterday. The IEC will be holding a voter registration this weekend in preparation for the local government elections in November. […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says all stakeholders in the country must work together to provide sustainable solutions to reduce unemployment among young people. South Africa’s official unemployment rate now stands at 32.7-percent, while 4.7 million young people who can work remain unemployed. Delivering the keynote address at the National Youth Day commemoration in Johannesburg yesterday, Ramaphosa […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says addressing the challenges facing young people requires practical solutions, not the scapegoating of vulnerable people. He delivered the keynote address at the National Youth Day commemoration in Johannesburg yesterday. The youth unemployment rate stands at 46-percent. Ramaphosa says the challenges facing young people are grave, and their concerns are real, which […]
# Die Landbank vra vir hernude fokus op die verwydering van hindernisse wat jong Suid-Afrikaners keer om betekenisvol aan die landbousektor deel te neem. Die land se amptelike werkloosheidsyfer vir jongmense tussen 15 en 34 jaar oud is tans bo 45-persent. Die waarnemende bestuurshoof van die Landbank, Jabu Mphambo, sê jongmense betree die boerderybedryf teen […]
# The United Nations has stressed the urgent need to open an aid corridor to transit the choked-off Strait of Hormuz and prevent a global hunger crisis. This comes as the US and Iran have agreed to a deal that will allow the reopening of the Strait, which normally transports about 20-percent of the world’s […]
# Rugby: Springbok-hulpafrigter, Deon Davids, sê die Barbarians se unieke identiteit en oorvloed van wêreldklas-talent maak van hulle ‘n bedreiging wat enige internasionale span kan laat struikel. Die Bokke sal Saterdag in Gqeberha teen die Barbarians uitdraf, wat die All Blacks-legende, TJ Perenara, en die Suid-Afrikaans gebore Skotse vleuel, Duhan van der Merwe, insluit. Davids […]
# Die Verenigde Nasies sê daar is ’n dringende behoefte om ‘n hulpkorridor te open om deur die geblokkeerde Straat van Hormoes te beweeg en ‘n wêreldwye hongerkrisis te voorkom. Dit volg nadat die VSA en Iran ooreengekom het om die Straat, wat ongeveer 20-persent van die wêreld se olie en vloeibare natuurlike gas vervoer, […]
# The Johannesburg Crisis Alliance says the City of Johannesburg has still not provided information about Eskom’s threatened interruption of electricity supply to the metro. The metro and City Power currently owe Eskom an arrear debt of 5.25-billion-rand. Following negotiations between the minister of Electricity and Energy, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Eskom and City Power, no agreement […]
