YDF not performing to optimum

Skilled graduates struggle to find jobs
Skilled graduates struggle to find jobs

Since inception, the Youth Development Fund (YDF) has supported 159 projects, of which 134 are operational, 20 have since collapsed and the status of four projects are unknown.

The Goodhope sub council learnt this week that the unknown projects constitute those with beneficiaries that could not be reached during the monitoring process. 

“Some of these businesses failed mainly due to drought, lack of commitment from the youth, youth leaving their projects for permanent jobs, shortage of water, and the inability of poultry projects to penetrate the market as they compete with large and already established suppliers,” the Sub council chairperson Mmaobene Molefe said. 

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