NATIONAL YOUTH ENTERPRISE STRATEGY (NYES. The objectives of this strategy include ensuring that entrepreneurial skills, talent and experience are nurtured among young women and men, to enhance their capacity to participate in all aspects of the country’s social, economic and community life; ensuring that young women and men are recognised as a key target group of need, and a resource in the development of cooperatives and SMMEs within national, provincial and local economies; and maximising access to financial and non‐financial resources for young women and men who are in business or planning to enter business. In a nutshell, the strategy encourages and promotes youth enterprise ownership, covering all forms of enterprises, including cooperatives.
