Propelled by the success of the South Africa Investment Conference (SAIC), President Cyril Ramaphosa has set a R2 trillion target for South Africa to achieve over the next five years.
The conference was attended by delegates from varying industries in South Africa and across the world at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg recently.
Hlongwana who is from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal applied for the MSDS course in 2021 after she attended a career exhibition where she received the application forms from the SANDF.
A sudden retrenchment in 2020 inspired Mathabo Ntshiqa (33) to start a laundrette that services the community of Langa in Cape Town.
ULibo Laundry Services, says Ntshiqa, was established at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic after she lost her job in the hospitality industry. She says she applied for other jobs but because she had always wanted to open her own businesses, she also looked for entrepreneurial opportunities.
When Nwabisa Maphumulo (25) from Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape received her matric results, she was unhappy with her grades for maths and science. 
Louisa Maloka-Mogotsi (64), a trained social worker turned farmer, is one of the success stories to come from the stakeholder engagements held recently in the Bojanala District in the North West by the MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development Desbo Mohono.
Maloka-Mogotsi is a citrus farmer from Mooinooi who received assistance from the department in 2016 to acquire a 66-hectare farm. Today, she exports her produce – several orange varieties and Lisbon lemons – to the Middle East and Russia.
Government continues to drive various initiatives to ensure that SA’s youth are given access to opportunities to better themselves, drive change in their communities and contribute to the economy.
Vuk’uzenzele highlights some of these opportunities in celebration of Youth Month.
Presidential Youth Employment Intervention