Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 6 June 2015 | Seite 50

Solving the Mismatch

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The data-driven organisation was
seeded four years ago by Yellowwoods
Social Investments, an investment
house and a significant shareholder
in a number of businesses in financial
services (such as Hollard, Telesure,
Clientele and Direct Axis in the Western
Cape) and hospitality holdings (majority
shareholder of Nandos, as well as
Spier Wine Estate and Beyond Lodges).
Harambee, Swahili for everyone ‘pulling
together’, does exactly that, with offices
in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban
and Port Elizabeth and mobile reach to
“Employers are constantly telling us most areas of South Africa. Together,
that employing young inexperienced they have generated a solution that
individuals is costly and risky,” explains addresses both the needs of the youth
Tammy Chetty, Regional Head of the and the needs of businesses and has
Western Cape. “Companies find that placed 15, 000 youth in sustainable
the youth are not ready for work and, employment over the last three years,
as a result, there is a threat of high and aims to place another 50, 000 over
labour turnover, which has a financial the next five years. In this process, 500,
implication. At Harambee, we aim to 000 young people will be brought closer
solve this mismatch by find [