{"id":4579,"date":"2019-08-15T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T07:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"creators-rather-than-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/15\/creators-rather-than-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Creators Rather Than Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Forbes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Africa\u2019s unemployment\nrate is already high. Motaung and Malwandle represent more than 50% of our\nyouth that are unemployed. And according to Statistics South Africa, one out of\nthree graduates will, likewise, enter the job market without any economic\nprospects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good news is that digital\nand other tech innovations will directly and indirectly produce new sources of\nwork. The WEF report further suggests that 133 million new jobs may be created\nby 2022, thanks to industry 4.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, for these opportunities\nto scale to the extent needed to address South Africa\u2019s current employment\ncrisis, there needs to be a strong supply of quality skills \u2013 spanning\nfoundational skills like basic numeracy and literacy, through to advanced tech\nskills&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbesafrica.com\/technology\/2019\/08\/13\/creators-rather-than-consumers\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Forbes South Africa\u2019s unemployment rate is already high. Motaung and Malwandle represent more than 50% of our youth that are unemployed. And according to Statistics South Africa, one out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}