SA has an education crisis: Business expert
A business expert believes addressing education is the key to reducing the high rate of unemployment in South Africa.
Kobus Engelbrecht has been reacting to the latest data released by Stats SA. He believes the country fundamentally has an education crisis - and not an unemployment crisis.
The recent data shows an increase in the unemployment rate to 27.1%.
Engelbrecht - who is also the Marketing Head for Sanlam Business Market - says government's role is in restructuring the education system, to ensure learners are equipped with the skills that make them employable.
"We've got millions of people that are willing to work on the one side and on the other side you have employers that are looking for people they want to employ. But there's not a match, because the qualifications that the unemployed are coming to sell on the labour market is not what the employers want to buy," he said.