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by Bongi | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured, Knowledge & Research, Uncategorized
In a recent landscape review of jobtech platforms in South Africa, the Jobtech Alliance discovered that the country leads both in the number of jobtech platforms and the number of users across Africa. As of 2021, an estimated 3.9 million gig workers were active in South Africa, indicating significant potential for jobtech platforms to provide employment opportunities, especially for the youth.
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by Minesh Singh | Mar 20, 2023 | Featured, Knowledge & Research
This report estimates the size of the South African care economy through an analysis of the number of existing and potential future job opportunities in the sector. It also outlines the
potential impact of investment into the care economy including economic impact, impact on beneficiaries, and impact on the young people who could access the job opportunities
together with the broader societal impacts.
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by Minesh Singh | Mar 20, 2023 | Featured, Knowledge & Research
This report dive’s into each of the care economy sectors, starting with early childhood development, and then education, healthcare and domestic work. And will
provide an overview of the sector, specify key operators, outline challenges and bottlenecks,
and identify opportunities for targeted investment.
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by Steven | Jul 13, 2022 | Featured, Knowledge & Research
The South African government recently released the first, draft Country Investment Strategy which seeks to attract and facilitate direct and foreign investment in order to drive economic growth, increase employment, and reduce poverty and inequality.
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by Minesh Singh | Mar 4, 2022 | Featured, Knowledge & Research
This research report provides useful insights about the South African labour market, the role for pathway managers such as Harambee and the need for improved data to better support the occupational analysis, transitions and earnings.
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by Minesh Singh | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Knowledge & Research
Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator’s Rob Urquhart and Sharmi Surianarain discuss the uneven experience of digitalisation and the ability of youth to access its opportunities in this paper published in the SAQA’s The South African National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) bulletin.
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