Playing an active role in youth empowerment

The YES initiative was launched by President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2018 to combat unemployment in South Africa. This initiative is aimed at creating one million new jobs and job opportunities over three years in urban areas, peri—urban areas and rural areas throughout the country. In

Whether your business needs to implement skills development or YES Youth Solutions or it wants to engage at a deeper level on the issue of youth unemployability, using Lucha Lunako’s services means that your organisation will have access to our resources, knowledge and insights about

South Africa (17 December 2020) – While 2020 might not rank very highly on the list of years to fondly look back at for many people, optimism was rife at the beginning of the year with a commitment to youth development and employment programmes. Early

Young people are saying that they want to be part of the solution, in many cases they want to BE the solution; they just need some practical help from those around them in order to be positively mobilised towards their futures and to positively impact

Sizwe Jacob, who was born in 1994, has been what many people consider unemployed for his whole life. “I have never sat around waiting for government or big businesses to give me a formal job. I make work happen. I create my own story. And

Youth development lab Lucha Lunako has released the findings of a recent youth survey that the organisation conducted around the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the mandated National Lockdown, as well as the attitudes and opinions that South Africa’s youth have towards these. The Youth Covid-19 Poll