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Title: South African Youth Council Presentation to Parliament Portfolio Committee on Labour 07 June 2006


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South African Youth CouncilPresentation to
Parliament Portfolio Committee on Labour07 June
2006
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INTRODUCTION
  • 1992 formation of the National Youth Development
    Forum as the united platform and the voice for
    the youth
  • 1995 the collapse of the National Youth
    Development Forum
  • Reasons for the collapse, Institutional capacity
    problems, vague mandate, No clear programmes ect.
  • 1996 National Steering Committee was formed at
    NEDLAC to facilitate the process towards
    institutionalisation of youth voice in policy
    process.
  • 1997 South African Youth Council was formed

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SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH COUNCIL
South African Youth Council (SAYC) is a voluntary
civil society youth organisation that represents
the interests and aspirations of various youth
organisations affiliated to it. It caters for a
broad range of youth organisations from all walks
of life and its categories of representation
includes, but not limited to, political, youth,
students, religious, cultural, sporting and
voluntary youth orgaisations. SAYC derives its
existence as a common law organisation that has
been incorporated not for gain and it is
therefore recognised in law in terms of the
Non-profit Organisations Act No. 71 of 1997 in
that it is a separate entity from the members
which constitute it, that it has a continuous
existence, and that it has been incorporated not
for gain. SAYC as a civil society organistaion
and a non-governmental youth organisation remains
the largest youth representatives in terms of
its affiliates and the wide spectrum of youth
these affiliates represents. Our engagement with
SAYC is therefore highly critical. Chief amongst
its function is to mobilise youth organisations
to ensure their participation in building and
entrenching democracy in South Africa. Below
find a breakdown structure of who is SAYC
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Political Youth Formulations
Volunteer Youth Orgs
Student Formulations
Issue Based
Religious Youth
Disabled Youth
South African Youth Council
Economic Empowerment Youth
Rural Youth
Youth Workers
Youth Clubs
Service Providers
Arts Cultural Youth
Youth Sport
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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • INTERNATIONAL TRENDS
  • 160 Million of People in the World are Unemployed
    Today,
  • 40 of those without proper jobs are young
    people,
  • Youth in employment are either lowest paid,
    contract casuals without protection or self
    employed without business,
  • In Developing Countries a rising number of young
    people work in the informal economy where they
    earn lower wages and are often subjected to poor
    or even exploitative working conditions,
  • In both Developed and developing countries,
    significant portions of the population live below
    defined poverty lines,
  • Youth work has become what is known as the
    intermediary zone between the formal and the
    informal economy characterized by casualisation
    of Labour

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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION
  • Approximately 40 0f SA pop. Is Youth
  • The average official unemployment rate between
    March 2004 March 2005 stood between 27,9 and
    26,5 (Stats SA 2005) The figure excludes
    discouraged workers,
  • The unemployment rate was 40,5 including the
    discouraged workers, the figure remained
    unchanged for the entire year
  • The absorption rate of the unemployed is low,
    resulting in continuous poverty and inequality,
  • Whiles unemployment has risen, wages have
    declined
  • In 2004, 39 of the population earned under R
    1000 a month, the same figure as ten years ago,
  • The purchasing power of R 1000 fell by well over
    half,
  • Increased pressure on disposal incomes of the
    poor from expenses such as school fees,
    transportation costs, this effectively diminished
    the potential for capital accumulation and
    savings,
  • This has Entrenched earning patterns and income
    disparities

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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION
  • While growth has destabilized it has not seen
    the creation of sustainable formal sector jobs to
    decimate the current high levels of unemployment
    and poverty
  • Instead we have seen large scale of job-losses
    and casualisation in other sectors,
  • Critical to job creation is to establish the
    relationship between the growth strategy and
    broader human development,
  • Over 70 of workers in the informal economy
    report a monthly income below R 1000
  • About 50 of those working in the informal
    economy report an income below R500 (HSRC Review
    2003)

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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • Youth between the ages of 15 24 forms 33 of
    the working age, they only constitute 10 of the
    employed (Labour Force Survey September 2002)
  • The LBF data Survey shows that youth are about
    60 of the working age population, they form 70
    of all the unemployed in the society
  • Of the 8 million unemployed in the South African
    Labour Market 5,5 million is between the ages of
    15-34
  • The figures suggests that the current levels of
    economic growth are not high enough to can absorb
    the large number of new job seekers entering the
    labour market every year

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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • Youth challenges include rural-urban poverty,
    unemployment, rapid urbanisation etc.
  • Youth need innovation ongoing reflection
  • We call on joint planning with all stakeholders
  • Most researches on employment patterns have been
    urban bias than rural bias.
  • Youth unemployment has much more profound effect
    on young women than young men.

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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • CAUSES OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • Employers feel they are too young, too
    inexperienced and physically and socially too
    immature
  • Some analysts feel that the problem lies in youth
    having the wrong attitudes they prefer urban to
    rural living, they prefer white-collar to
    blue-collar work, they lack discipline, and so
    on.
  • Other see the problem as an inappropriate
    education that is too academically-inclined,
    which encourages students to aspire to
    white-collar jobs, and which does not impact
    useful and technical skills.

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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • INTERVENTIONS
  • Human Resource Development through learnerships
    and other initiatives (How sustainable are the
    learnerships, many young people do not find
    employment after training instead they return to
    unemployment)
  • SETAs are not having enough impact on job
    creation
  • Expanded Public Works Programme (Do not create
    sustainable income, create temporary jobs)
  • National Youth Service Programme (Ho many
    sustainable jobs has it created)

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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • RECOMMENDATIONS
  • Create Worker cooperatives to take part in and
    manage EPWP Labour Intensive Construction
    Projects
  • Conduct impact assessment/analysis on
    learnerships over the past five years,
  • Increased access to higher education
  • Increase the social security net,
  • Government should introduce incentive schemes for
    people who return to rural areas for service
    delivery, particularly infrastructure development
  • Government should accelerate land restitution and
    redistribution so that land can be available for
    youth to can exercise and practice agricultural
    scheme projects

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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • RECOMMENDATIONS
  • Because of historical problems with access and
    quality of education, literacy and numeracy must
    be regarded as important parts of training.
  • Promoting self-employment through community and
    youth enterprises
  • Mobile training units for rural areas (YMCA
    Mobile Training unit Programme in Fiji)
  • Ensure that employment schemes do not expose
    young women to low wage, super exploitative
    employment aimed at competition in overseas
    markets

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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • RECOMMENDATIONS
  • Ensure that in all employment schemes young women
    are not employed specifically because they can be
    paid extremely low rates and for most of these
    young women employment last for only few years
    while they are young and unmarried
  • Ensure that Labour regime is enforceable in all
    the proposed employment schemes

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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
  • CONCLUSION
  • Youth in particular need expanding economy as
    they are largely reliant on the creation of new
    job opportunities.

THANK YOU
Tel 011 403 6392 Fax 011 403 8278 bmokgothu_at_nwpg
.gov.zasiphosayc_at_hotmail.com
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