{"id":23784,"date":"2026-02-15T06:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T04:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/nearly-five-million-young-south-africans-will-disappear-economically-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:32","slug":"nearly-five-million-young-south-africans-will-disappear-economically-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nearly-five-million-young-south-africans-will-disappear-economically-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nearly five million young South Africans will disappear economically in 2026&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This is as matriculants and graduates are giving up on job hunting after months without responses from employers. Chief Operations Officer, Tiyani Mohlaba had called for partnerships between government, business and civil society to create opportunities for the youth.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a youth unemployment problem to say. It&#8217;s a partnership debt, right? And the solution for us, based on the experiences, collaboration between government, business, and civil society. And most importantly, parents, you and I as mentors, as coaches of these young people, we need to make them aware that a job is a first start. We can&#8217;t be chosen. I mean, we&#8217;ve got opportunities in the business process outsourcing, what (we) refer to as\u00a0call enters. ICT, agriculture which young people can basically access so they must go out polish their CVs,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13562,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44,26],"class_list":["post-23784","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South African (SA) youth skills organisation, Afrika Tikkun has warned that\u00a0nearly five million young\u00a0people\u00a0are at risks of becoming economically invisible","published_date":"2026-02-15 00:00:00","news_description":"South African (SA) youth skills organisation, Afrika Tikkun has warned that\u00a0nearly five million young\u00a0people\u00a0are at risks of becoming economically invisible","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26648,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23784\/revisions\/26648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}