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Future of work

Technology makes innovation borderless now, and many ask: what hope is there for unemployed, undereducated youth in South Africa who are disconnected from economic activity? Youth unemployment currently sits at 43.1 percent (at the end of the first quarter of 2021, according to the expanded definition). Is there a role for youth in the digital future of jobs?

This grip of a mass digitisation

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