South Africa doesn’t have a job creation problem. It has an alignment problem

We know where the jobs are, and we know our young people are eager to work. So why aren’t we connecting the dots?

South Africa has 200,000 agricultural jobs waiting to be filled.

We have a thriving business process outsourcing (BPO) sector – including call centres, customer service, data processing and back-office administration – that can absorb entry-level workers at scale.

Our technology sector is hungry for digitally literate young people. Yet 60% of our youth are unemployed. This is unacceptable.

The glaring gap between available employment and eager young people seems to be a donga the breadth of the Orange River.