job seekers according to the national treasury strategy document on confronting youth development unemployed people tend to be less skilled and inexperienced with almost eighty percent having no formal further or tertiary education while two thirds have never worked in their lives this gives a view of the urgency of the need to attend to the youth unemployment challenge it would however be ill conceived to seek to suggest that nothing is being done south africa as well as the sadc countries has demonstrated great commitment towards the advancement of the youth development