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65% of children entering school will work in jobs that don’t yet exist

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Tuesday, 18 October 2022: South Africa needs to prepare for the future world of work by developing future skills that will facilitate economic growth to enable businesses to compete in local and international markets. An advanced workforce will also make South Africa an attractive investment destination and allow us to stop importing skills. How do we make this happen? The world of work is changing super-fast on account of factors like globalisation, digitisation, rise of the consumer and artificial intelligence. Various forecasts of the impact of these estimate that between 50 - 70% of current jobs are being lost to technological advances. Our BRICS partners are moving faster to develop relevant skills for the new economy than we are. Unless we catch up, we will sit with a skills gap.
7 Nov 2022 1PM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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