skills development and most importantly employment opportunities let us frankly assess how the two thousand ten fifa world cup should have been used to create opportunities and address the needs of young people firstly with regard to unemployment the shocking statistics reveal that south african youth contribute to seventy two percent of unemployed people in this country about three point one million youth are unemployed thirty five percent of the south african population is the youth and this translates to about sixteen point three million people of whom thirty six percent are jobless this is due to a lack of skills and poor education and the question is what has the local organising committee loc done to assist young people with