South Africa has one of the world’s worst education systems – that is not the only serious problem we have!
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I will keep this as simple as possible – we have around 1,000,000 children starting school each year.
That would mean there should be about 1,000,000 young adults leaving school each year and becoming employed to earn a living.
BUT THIS IS NOT HAPPENING – FOR A FEW REASONS.
We have a 56% drop-out rate at schools which means that 560,000 children are leaving school with no certificate of completion.
Let’s assume that the other 440,000 are leaving with a certificate and going on to higher education, such as university or college.
That would mean that we have 440,000 at the end of each year able to follow a career if they could find a job.
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Since 2012 the most jobs created in a single year was 250,000, we won’t even consider the job losses that year – there were still another 190,000 well educated young adults that could not find employment. (In the average year there were less than 150,000 new jobs created.)
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NOW, if that happened one year it would not be a real problem – BUT that was the best year in the last ten. If we add up all the unemployed youth over the last ten years we get 560,000 pupils x 10 = 5,600,000 plus 300,000 students x 10 = 3,000,000.
That means over the last ten years we have created 8,600,000 more unemployed people in SA. This is a serious problem, unemployment means poverty, Poverty means crime and then starvation for millions.
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In SA according to the government statistics we have 7.5 million unemployed, we have 2.5 million disabled unemployed people, we have 20 plus million on social grants, we have at least 1 million school drop-outs and 1 million students who are unable to pay their fees. If these 32 million adults do not start earning a monthly income soon, I am afraid we will lose our country to poverty.
These 32 million people make up more than 65% of our adult population needing a monthly income. Together we can help them and ensure all future generations of children get a great quality education at the same time.
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I want to help people understand how this is affecting us all. Let’s say out of every 1,000,000 school children only 150,000 find work each year. That means business owners across SA will only see a small increase in business each year if they are lucky, most businesses will see their customer base shrink each year.
That means that more and more businesses will close their doors each year and less and less jobs will be created each year. This is a dangerous path we are heading down, were no one has anything to gain.
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It is the small and medium sized businesses that create employment, but they cannot survive on 15% of new customers each year – they need this number to be 85 – 90% each year if we are going to thrive as a country.
TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF SOUTH AFRICA
We cannot allow this to continue, it is up to the people of South Africa, together we can make a difference.
Ref #: 226-529 NPO Company Reg #: 2019/034188/08