A company that specialises in youth development programme facilitation believes it has the answer to the current scarcity of jobs in the country.
Primestars believes this answer lies in teaching high school children to become financially savvy through the use of its entrepreneurship platform Step Up 2 A Start Up to enable them to become job creators, not job seekers.
The company’s general manager Nkosinathi Moshoana explained this during their financial literacy and entrepreneurship movie sessions which were broadcast simultaneously on the big screen at the Ster-Kinekor cinemas nationwide on 7 September to help the youth see a bigger picture of the economic future of this country.
“Our children cannot be financially savvy without becoming business savvy in order to help take the economic prosperity of this country to another level. Our country has been in the economic dog box for some time now and it is young people like you that can lift it up from the doldrums to success,” Moshoana told the children.
He pointed out that the Step Up 2 A Start Up platform ‘seeks to nurture your ideas and ensure they become reality’.
“It also seeks to teach schoolchildren to aim to become employers and not employees and to become job creators and not seekers.
“We aim to rejig their mindset to change this notion of learning in order to be marketable in the employment stakes. We want them to learn financial literacy and entrepreneurship in order to become business-minded and aim to solve community challenges using technology as we enter into the 4th Industrial Revolution.”
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