Addressing the challenge of youth unemployment in South Africa Presentation to a World Bank seminar Dr. Miriam Altman Executive Director Centre for Poverty Employment & Growth HSRC maltman@hsrc.ac.za or altmanm@mweb.co.za May 5‚ 2010 Government commitment • Government has committed to reducing unemployment by half between 2004 and 2014 – from 28% to 14% • HSRC estimated this would require the creation of avg 500‚000 net new jobs annually • This average was reached prior to the downturn •
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The Republic of South Sudan‚ colloquially known as South Sudan‚ is located in the eastern region of Africa‚ landlocked by amidst Ethiopia to the east‚ Uganda and Kenya to the south‚ the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central African Republic to the west‚ and Sudan to the north. Approximately 12.05 million people live in the country‚ and most of its populace are between zero and fourteen years of age‚ meaning that the country’s population will see a lot of growth when their youngest generation
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Introduction The continent of South America has about one-eighth of the Earth’s land surface‚ situated between latitudes 12°N-55°S and longitudes 80°-35°W; no other continent has a greater latitudinal span. Eighty percent of its land mass is within the tropical zone‚ yet it extends into the subantarctic. The extensive zones of temperate and cold climates in the vicinity of the Equator‚ in the Andes‚ are unique. The land area of about 17‚519‚900-17‚529‚250 km² is under the jurisdiction of 13 countries
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Situation Analysis Micro-environment Forces that are internal to and influence a company include: the company‚ the suppliers‚ market intermediaries‚ customers‚ competitors‚ employees and publics‚ all impact on the company’s ability to serve its customers‚ and together they are responsible for producing‚ distributing and promoting the company’s offering (Kotler‚ P 2006). These immediate players are further broken down and analysed below. The Company The Learning Cape Initiative’s (LCI) business
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THE BRITISH ADAPTATION OF EDUCATION POLICY FOR AFRICANS IN ZAMBIA 1925-1964 A PROBLEM IN SYNTHESIS by Sibeso Mukoboto‚ B.A. A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School‚ Marquette University‚ in Partial Fulfillment of the Re- ’ quirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin November‚ 1978 i PREFACE The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze how the British policy of "Adaptation of Education" waS defined and applied to the Zambian situation in the period
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different social‚ economic and political stances of the North and South cultures. Both Southern and Northern states depicted two different stand points on how things should be as far as political‚ social and economic views of American in that time. The North and South’s view on political‚ economic and social status varied greatly‚ making it difficult to come to any terms‚ leading to much greater conflict. Society varied for the North and South states‚ depending on their status‚ Americans were either educated
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Reconstruction in the South Reconstruction is the Federal Governments plan(s) to abolish slavery‚ change the way of life in the South‚ and to bring the nation back together after the devastating effects of the Civil War. Many Government plans were brought up but never fell through. Likewise‚ Presidents over the years‚ after the Civil War‚ had also brought their own Reconstruction plans to the nation. Several good things came from each plan but not one individual plan had drastically changed
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than the South. They lived in the same country but did things differently. I believe that the North was more positive than the South. Most of this happened before the Civil War. In spite of everything‚ Northerners and Southerners had different social‚ economic and political cultures. The Underground Railroad was an escape route for slaves in the South. Harriet Tubman‚ Northern abolitionists‚ and Quaker Thomas Garrett mainly helped in the assistance getting slaves to Northern states. The South especially
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BOTSWANA AND SOUTH AFRICA 2013 GEC 356: RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSIGNMENT 1: A CASE FOR WIND ENERGY IN BOTSWANA AND SOUTH AFRICA 2013 GEC 356: RENEWABLE ENERGY ORATILE MOKGATLA 201003248 OAGILE KEREBOTSWE 201004641 MPHO MMUTLE 201004657 MOMPATI LESELE 200802084 ORATILE MOKGATLA 201003248 OAGILE KEREBOTSWE 201004641 MPHO MMUTLE 201004657 MOMPATI LESELE 200802084 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 2 BOTSWANA 3 WIND ENERGY PROSPECTS FOR BOTSWANA 6 SOUTH AFRICA 8 AN
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of climate change on the Information Technology (IT) industry in South Africa. Initial investigation will be into what is happening to the global and South African climate based on recent studies and academic papers. By then examining the impact of climate change on each sector‚ and by examining the percentage of IT spend per sector‚ the impact on IT during our lifetimes can be extrapolated. 2. Global Climate Change; South African Impact 2.1. The average global temperature has historically varied
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