Premier

Statistics SA reports show that more than 360 000 young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the Western Cape are currently not in employment, education or training (NEET):

1. (a) What is the total number of young people between the ages of 15 and 35 in the province who fall into the NEET category, (b) what is the breakdown per age cohort (i) 15–24 and (ii) 25–35, and per (aa) race, (bb) gender and (cc) municipality and (c) what is the provincial government’s response to this crisis of youth exclusion from the economy, education and training opportunities;
2. what are the details of all the (a) programmes and (b) interventions implemented by the Western Cape Government to address the NEET challenge over the past five years, including the (i) departments responsible for these programmes, (ii) annual budget allocations, (iii) actual expenditure on each programme and (iv) number of young people reached or benefitting in (aa) 2019, (bb) 2020, (cc) 2021, (dd) 2022, (ee) 2023, (ff) 2024 and (gg) 2025 to date?