{"id":24151,"date":"2026-02-24T07:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/calls-for-sa-finance-minister-to-prioritise-unemployment-ahead-of-budget-speech\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:52","slug":"calls-for-sa-finance-minister-to-prioritise-unemployment-ahead-of-budget-speech","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/calls-for-sa-finance-minister-to-prioritise-unemployment-ahead-of-budget-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for SA Finance Minister to prioritise unemployment ahead of Budget Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ahead of South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Budget Speech, some unemployed young people in the Northern Cape Province have called on Finance Minister Enoch Godongwane to prioritise\u00a0opportunities that can help improve the lives of desperate young people.<\/div>\n<div>\nYoung people say they are doubtful that the budget speech scheduled to be delivered on Wednesday will have a positive impact on\u00a0their lives.<\/p>\n<p>High youth unemployment in SA remains a big challenge.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\nAccording to official statistics 43% of SA citizens aged 15 to 34 are unemployed.<\/div>\n<div>\nIn an attempt to give dejected young people hope, a non-profit organisation\u00a0in Kimberley is actively trying to link these unemployed youth to employers.<\/div>\n<div>\nOnce weekly they meet job seekers to help them draft their curriculum vitae, email them to potential employers and assist with interview coaching.<\/div>\n<div>\nThey say their contribution is a drop in the ocean but goes a long way for those who have lost hope of finding\u00a0a job.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22816,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-24151","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"SA Budget Speech","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24151","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\/24151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26918,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24151\/revisions\/26918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}