EC govt gives motorbikes to unemployed youth

GQEBERHA - Eastern Cape Economic Development MEC Nonkqubela Pieters handed over motorbikes to a group of Gqeberha-based young entrepreneurs known as Ekasi Delivery.

These young people started this initiative in 2018 to address high youth unemployment.

Ekasi Delivery trained 150 unemployed young people in the Eastern Cape about their delivery business as well as how to ride motorbikes.

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From there they approached the provincial government for funding.

The MEC is hoping that the initial 50 young entrepreneurs will grow their businesses and employ more young people in a province, where over 40 percent of the population is unemployed.

• eNCA's Ncaba Ntlanganiso reports.