Afrika Tikkun has welcomed government measures aimed at boosting youth employment and plans centred around strengthening small to medium enterprises (SMMES). In his State of the Nation Address (SONA) for 2022, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the first two phases of the Presidential Employment Stimulus programmes, which launched in October 2020, have created 850,000 job...Continue Reading

Although aimed at South Africa’s youth, women form a strong focus of an ambitious programme offering digital skills by one of the country’s leading banks in partnership with global tech giant Microsoft and empowering non-profit skills development organisation Afrika Tikkun.Women and South African youth are at the heart of the initiative to build a digital...Continue Reading

Pretoria – Despite the results of the matric class of 2021 increasing by 0.2%, the government is looking at transforming the education system.Chief executive of Afrika Tikkun Services, Onyi Nwaneri, said although the pass rate of 76.4% was slightly higher than the 76.2% pass rate in 2020, it was still significantly lower than 2019’s rate...Continue Reading

This International Day of Education comes at a time when South Africa faces access, governance, inadequate curricula, uneven teacher deployment, and inequitable resources stumbling blocks. Afrika Tikkun Services (ATS) calls for a transformation of the education system, one where racial, gender, and anti-poor biases will be overcome. The theme to mark the day is “Changing...Continue Reading