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Faizel Patel – 14/06/2021
The acting HR Director at facilities management company Servest says the current youth unemployment statistics show that between 38 & 50% of youth are unemployed in the country.
Melanie Servest was speaking to Radio Islam on Monday ahead of Youth Day on June 16 on which South Africans commemorate the Soweto uprising and pay tribute to the lives of students and recognise the role of the youth in the liberation of South Africa from the apartheid regime.
On this day, thousands of students were ambushed by the apartheid regime as they spoke out on Afrikaans as the language of teaching.
Servest says the youth unemployment rate is staggering.
“The difficulty is there’s job scarcity, too much competition and lack of experience. If I were to categorize it, those would be the main causes of youth unemployment being so high within South Africa.”
Servest says there is a huge drive of learnerships within organisations to curb the unemployment rate.
“As South African organisations we need to turn our focus to a much stronger mentorship component plus the direct intervention such has internship programmes as well as learnersip.”
Servest says government needs to do more to address youth unemployment in the country.
Listen to the interview with Melanie Servest
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