these two segments of our society are the most marginalised statistics that have been recently quoted in the business day are frightening these statistics reflect that about two point five million youth aged eighteen to twenty four are neither working nor in any kind of education and training most have dropped out of school early only forty six percent of them remained in school long enough to write matric and only sixty percent passed south africa’s rate of unemployment is estimated at twenty six percent and the youth make up seventy percent of this figure the ifp feels that it is therefore important to look at what impact the two thousand