Employment and Labour holds a joint successful youth employment roadshow initiative in the North West
The Department of Employment and Labour in the North West was on Friday (02 June 2023) at the Ratlou Local Municipality to offer a number of services to the youth and the unemployed – in a joint partnership initiative with the National Youth Development Agency, Harambee, SA Youth, Youth Employment and the Government of the North West Province.
Scours of people including the young and the unemployed descended at the Setlagole Thusong Centre to access some of the services offered by Government at their doorstep.
The Department of Employment and Labour’s Public Employment Services (PES) Director in the North West, Ms Silindile Nkiwane, said the Department was providing assistance through its various programmes such as the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) claims, employment counselling, registration of employment seekers on the Department’s Employment Services of South Africa (ESSA), and the Compensation Fund (CF) inquiries and claims.
Ms Nkiwane told the young people in attendance that the ball is in their court during her presentation on behalf of the Department.
“It is possible and I believe that I am talking to the people who can become game changers. The people who are going to change the narrative about their lives. You may have that bad background and we all came from that bad background, but now the ball is in your court as to what do you do with this wealth of information that you are getting.
“Keep fighting and claiming what belongs to you through capacitating yourself and making yourself compatible,” said Ms Nkiwane.
The Youth Roadshow has been vising various parts of the country in deferent provinces from the Free State and Limpopo since last year (2022).
This Government partnered initiative has also seen a number of young people who have been testament during the Youth Roadshows as direct beneficiaries of Department of Employment and Labour’s ESSA programme.
ESSA is available to all South African citizens at no cost. Both the employers and work seekers can register on the online portal found on the department’s website, www.labour.gov.za. Alternatively, they can visit any of the Department’s offices to be assisted.
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