The document proposes introducing a new compulsory subject in South African schools to address high youth unemployment. It would teach logic, creative thinking, problem solving and developing an innovative mindset. The goal is to equip youth with skills to become entrepreneurs and job creators rather than depend on the government. Over a year-long implementation period, the course curriculum would be developed and teachers trained, with the subject reaching all 11 million+ school-aged children in South Africa. The hoped for outcomes include new businesses, community responsibility, analytical problem solving, and students ambition to improve their country.

1. Make It Work
TSiBA IC02
South Africa
TSiBA Education
Reidwaan Jawoodien

2. The Problem
The unemployment rate among all 15- to 24-year-old
South Africans is 51%, more than twice the national
unemployment rate of 25%.
A survey published by the South African Institute of
Race Relations revealed that an increasing number
of South Africans were relying on grants, with the
number of beneficiaries increasing by more than
300% in the past nine years.
The survey found that the average job created by a
government programme lasted just 46 days.

3. Demographics of
Unemployed youth
Unemployment is highest among African women aged 15 to 24
years, at 63%. Youth unemployment is lowest among Indian men, at
15 %. The youth unemployment rate varies considerably between
the races - it is 57% among Africans, 47 % among coloured youths,
23% among Indians, and 21% among whites. - Cape Times
Effects
O One third of South African youth want to emigrate due to job
availability and greater opportunities abroad. Respondents who
choose to emigrate find that the countries most attractive are the
United States, with Australia also being attractive generally to
whites. (News24)
O Unemployment affects us and our peers by following suit and
looking at emigration as a option instead of attempting to remedy
the situation through entrepreneurship and other job creation
tools.

4. Discovery
Causes and conditions for continued unemployment
O Lack of jobs and infrastructure
O Education curriculum provides for employment and
not employment creation eg: entrepreneurship
Who is responsible
O Department of education
O Lack of initiative from citizens namely youth
Where do the reasons lie
O In South Africa the reasons lie not only in the
education curriculum but in overall sense of self-
responsibility and the thinking processes to create
a solution.

5. Logic and Creative Thinking
Proposed solution
O Compulsory additional subject that runs from
grade 1 to grade 12
O Implemented by Department of Education in South
Africa for both private and public schools
O Creating a culture of creativity and develop all
types of thinking (concrete, abstract and analytical)
O Teaches learners how to develop an innovative
and creative mind, empower themselves and make
obsolete the mind-set of dependence on the
people around them (parents, government and
society).

6. Course Content
Course content will differ from primary to high school level. It will
range from basic theory requiring learners to think creatively and
soundly as well as exercises which involve the need for all types of
thinking to the application of what was taught by having debates
around current affairs (eg: making a learner choose a side of an
argument they don’t support but still have to defend). This is in an
attempt to activate both sides of the brain, both analytical and
creative, so that solutions are both well thought out and new.
O Logic - forming arguments, thinking skills and pattern
identification
O Creative thinking - finding alternatives, use of innovation in
appropriate situations
Currently schooling in South Africa has not required learners to be
controversial but more along the lines of doing better what is
already being done. This course will encourage learners to
question the way they have been living their lives and look for
alternatives or ways to improve them and those of the people
around them.

7. Impact Plan
O By implementing this subject into the curriculum
we are equipping learners throughout South Africa
with the necessary skills to grow and develop as
individuals and not have a conformist mentality.
Through doing so, South Africa will begin to reach
a new platform where not only job creation will
occur but South Africa as a whole will be able to
compete on an international level in terms of
technological advances, industrial growth and
eventually economic improvement.

8. Success Indicators
O All 11.173 million scholars between the ages of 6
to 18 will be reached whether or not they feel they
are in need of the subject at the current time in
their lives.
O When these scholars leave they will look for
alternative ways of employment and not wait for
government or jobs to open up to them whether
this be through entrepreneurship or looking for
creative ways of becoming employable.
O The scholars will spend as much time on this
subject as they do with any other but the benefits
of the mind-set they will adopt is of much greater
benefit than the time spent doing the course work.

9. Outcomes
O New businesses who target gaps in the
market and use these to create employment
O A society of people who feel they have a
social responsibility not just to their families
but to their communities as well
O A culture of looking for a solution analytically
before laying complaints to the government
and any other external factors
O Students who study with an ambition to better
their country, whether it be a doctor or a
lawyer. They do this with a goal in mind of
doing what is beneficial to all

10. Planning and implementation
O Our team will spend a year developing the course
with the help of university lecturers who specialise in
the field and proposing the solution to the
government. After this year we will assist the
government in equipping teachers to implement the
subject.
O South Africa has approximately 50.6 million of which
11.173 are still at school. This will reach the future
generation of potentially unemployed youth and
prevent further damage to the country’s current
economic condition.
O We will indirectly engage more then the 11.173
million scholars by introducing this subject as it will
affect the country with the ventures they pursue