Graduate recruitment scheme
Government will introduce a Graduate Recruitment Scheme so that it may attract the best and brightest into the Public Service. A capable state must start where people live and work.
Job creation and work opportunities
The success of the Presidential Employment Stimulus shows how public employment programmes can create meaningful work that generates a wider benefit and contributes to sustainable employment. The employment stimulus has created almost 2.2 million work and livelihood opportunities through innovative models that provide high-quality work to participants.
The Social Employment Fund has created over 80 000 jobs this year. It has supported more than 12 000 participants to enter entrepreneurial activities. During the past year, young people secured 235 000 work opportunities through the National Pathway Management Network, which is underpinned by the SAYouth.mobi platform.
Government now needs to build on these innovative programmes to create jobs for the youth on an even greater scale. To create jobs, it must leverage the unique strengths and unrealised potential to build the industries of the future – green manufacturing, renewable energy, electric vehicles and the digital economy
Digital services
The country has also seen strong growth in digital services and business process outsourcing, which has created jobs for young people. To support this growth, government is investing in skills development for the industries of the future.
Jobs boost fund
The Jobs Boost Fund has pioneered a new model that links funding for skills in demand to the successful placement and employment of young people.
