The programme showed improved mental health, reduced distress and a stronger sense of belonging among unemployed young people.
- Senior Researcher: Poverty and Inequality Initiative, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town
Relying solely on job placement as an indicator of successful intervention misses out on outcomes that are equally important, or more so, amid high structural unemployment.
The extent to which mobile phones can support and sustain real improvement in young lives is depressingly finite unless significant interventions occur.
The end of apartheid should have heralded a new South Africa for the generation born at its demise. But that hasn’t happened.
While South Africa’s youth unemployment is a structural matter, the country must find ways to alleviate the challenges in the short-term.
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