‘If EveryONE employs just ONE person, we would cut the official unemployment figure in half.’
This is according to Darryn Le Grange, founder of ActionCOACH Ignite, as he encourages business owners in the country to play their part in reducing the unemployment rate.
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According to Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) recently-released Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), South Africa’s unemployment rate currently stands at 32.5%.
‘To make matters worse, that’s only the ‘official’ unemployment figure. Expanded unemployment now stands at over 11 million people or 42.6%. It is easy to glance over the stats and even easier to lose perspective.
‘So to help, that equates to almost as many people unemployed as everyone living in the entire KwaZulu-Natal province.
”Put differently, that’s the entire population of a bustling city like Cairo combined with the whole of Soweto,’ said Le Grange.
In response to these alarming figures, ActionCOACH Southern Africa launched the EveryONE EmployONE initiative.
‘With around 3.5 million businesses currently in South Africa – from informal traders to small and medium enterprises, large business and corporates – we are the solution,’ he said.
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