Joburg Team Awarded For Huge Contribution to Fight Unemployment in SA
Youth Employment Service (YES) CEO Tashmia Ismail-Saville has been presented with the South African Chamber of Commerce UK and Official Brand South Africa Play Your Part award for the “enormous contribution” she and her team are making towards driving employment and employability in South Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa launched YES in March 2018. The initiative […]
Youth Employment Service (YES) CEO Tashmia Ismail-Saville has been presented with the South African Chamber of Commerce UK and Official Brand South Africa Play Your Part award for the “enormous contribution” she and her team are making towards driving employment and employability in South Africa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa launched YES in March 2018. The initiative aims to see more than one million young South Africans being offered paid work experience over the next three years… putting them at centre of inclusive economic growth.
SA Chamber of Commerce executive committee member Hayley Reichert was in Joburg from the UK, to present the award.
Reichert said that since the launch of YES, Ismail-Saville and her team of 50, and over 200 companies, “have placed 18,000 young people in paid one-year internships across the country!”
This is promising news in a week in which the latest devastating unemployment figures show that 29% of the South African population is unemployed.