The North West Economic Development MEC Bitsa Lenkopane has urged unemployed residents not to despair.
This as Statistics South Africa’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey ranks the province as having the highest unemployment rate in the country.in the province stands 0.6% higher, from 53.6% in the first quarter of this year to 54.2% in the second quarter.“We will be able to improve.
“We will keep directing them, and that’s why we are also going to deal with the issue of upskilling them. So that they must be able to fit well in the opportunities that we want to present for them.”“Access to funding is a challenge, even when you want to start a small business to make a living. So you will find yourself with no income, and relying on a child support grant, which is also not enough.
“The grant is used to buy food, toiletry and electricity, which is very expensive. So you will find yourself not knowing what to do, in order to make your life better,” elaborates one resident. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
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