Author
Listed:
- Monama, Sakiel Albert
- Mokoele, Ngoako Johannes
Abstract
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the repercussions of idle time on youthful population through critically analyzing the status quo of youth unemployment in South Africa. Youth unemployment has become a major source of concern in South Africa and around the world. The unemployment challenge has thus left many young people in limbo, a state of misery, idleness, and social death. It subsequently exposed many young South African to socially immoral activities such as, inter alia, drug and alcohol use, deceit and theft. Idle time, the period people wastefully spend doing nothing productive, vehemently led many young people to perish, and ostensibly resulted into the economic stagnation in South Africa. This paper fastened its philosophical argument on the biblical aphorism that “an idle mind is the devil’s workshop”.Design/Methodology/Approach: The paper adopted a qualitative desktop-based research methodology as well as document analysis as data analysis tool.Findings: The results established that the persistent challenge of youth unemployment has pushed South Africa’s economic development into a downward spiral toward underdevelopment and vulnerability. Therefore, the country lacks a holistic approach to address idleness and unemployment, to unlock the potential of its youthful population, stimulate economic growth and development.Implications/Originality/Value: It is therefore concluded that youth unemployment has become a serious dilemma in South Africa, that it subjected majority of young people to idleness and encourages them to engage in immoral activities such as&crime, making them more susceptible to the onset of drug and alcohol use. The paper recommended that the government should adopt effective mechanisms to engage unemployed youth into the economic mainstream, to enhance development and reduce idle time tragedies.
Suggested Citation
Monama, Sakiel Albert & Mokoele, Ngoako Johannes, 2024.
"Idle Time and its Repercussions on Youth in South Africa: A Recipe of Unemployment Crisis,"
Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, CSRC Publishing, Center for Sustainability Research and Consultancy Pakistan, vol. 10(2), pages 203-212, June.
Handle:
RePEc:src:jbsree:v:10:y:2024:i:2:p:203-212
DOI: http://doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v10i2.2730
Download full text from publisher
Corrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:src:jbsree:v:10:y:2024:i:2:p:203-212. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Prof. Dr. Ghulam Shabir (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/csrcmpk.html .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through
the various RePEc services.