Cape Town – Service delivery platform Orderin has partnered with Afrika Tikkun, an organisation that works to support disadvantaged young people across the country, to launch a project aimed at tackling youth unemployment.To reach their intended audience, the organisations collaborated with the Youth Employment Services (Yes) programme, which builds partnerships between the government, civil society...Continue Reading

Digital skills development firm SAtion has collaborated with Microsoft and non-profit tech hub Empire Partner Foundationto host a skills development hackathon this weekend.Launched in June, SAtion seeks to draw together stakeholders in the private and public sectors − including government, large corporations, SMMEs, industrialists, private investors and educational institutions − to discuss, co-ordinate and implement...Continue Reading

In the face of rising unemployment in South Africa, B2B delivery-as-a-service platform OrderIn has launched a programme that aims to create opportunities for unemployed South African youth.With unemployment in South Africa hitting a new record high of 34.4%  in the second quarter of 2021 (according to the latest data released by Statistics South Africa in...Continue Reading

Corporates play a decisive role in nurturing strong SME sector There has been a lot of talking about how we can and should help our country’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) flourish, thrive, grow, and create more jobs. The sector has, after all, been hit the hardest by last year’s recession, subsequent Covid-19 pandemic and...Continue Reading