SA Netball used as a tool for job creation
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Simnilawe Ndaka (left) and Ilzeri Britz in action during
the Spar Netball Championships at the University of Johannesburg
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Netball is one of the most popular women's participation sports in Africa. SA decides to turn SA netball professional. This is one of the ways to create jobs in SA. Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula says: “If you invest in a woman, you are breaking the cycle of poverty and this is what it’s about”.
SA netball to turn professional is news that received huge applause at the Heartfelt Centre in Pretoria on Tuesday, at the launch of the four-day Diamond Challenge.
SA unemployment rate reads 24.9% at the second quarter of the year 2012. It is an issue that the country is trying to fight against because most of the unemployed people are the youth.
SA is looking at all the tools and ways they can use to create jobs. Sports is one of the tools SA is using to create jobs. They are doing that by investing in sports, starting from development to professionalism in sports.
It is good to see that there are some initiatives that still exist and aim at eradicaring unemployment in South Africa.
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