The socio-economic impact of youth unemployment in a local municipality of the North West Province

Abstract

The objective of the study was to research the socio-economic impacts of youth unemployment in Tlokwe local municipality. The study made use of descriptive statistics to analyse and interpret the data collected from a random survey of 50 young people between the age of 16 and 35 years old. An individual questionnaire was administered during the interviews of the respondents. The results indicate that most unemployed young people are female. About 41.8% of the unemployed youth have competed grade 12, with 9.1 % of them having obtained a tertiary diploma or degree. The majority of the young people indicated that they did not have work experience and this hindered their potential to secure employment. Most of the youth originate from Ikageng. The views gathered from the young people are directed towards the need for government to ensure that tertiary education is accessible in order to improve the level of education amongst the youth. The government needs to provide more targeted job creation programmes, to the youth who have done well in matric