Q.2.1 Unemployment between the ages of 15 and 24 has reached a staggering 71 million (ILO, 2016). Solution fluency is a guided problem solving framework that consists of six D’s. Use the solution fluency process to solve unemployment problems in your area. Provide a brief background of your area and how you intend to tackle this problem.

Define 

 High unemployment rate in Cape Town area.

Discover  

The high unemployment  is mostly caused as a result of the dismal state of the education system and the education system not equipping students with the necessary skills to enter the job market.

Dream  

 Overhaul the education system to provide more accessible and better quality education.In addition, learners have to be empowered and involved in processes that affect their education. They need to be given a voice. They also have to be given options, other than an academic matric, such as the Technical, Vocational and Occupational streams provided by TVET colleges

Design 

The Department of Basic Education to shift its focus from matric results as the sole measure of success in schools.
Teachers and district officials have to be trained and capacitated to address diversity.
The Department to address the inequality in South African Schools and implement and fund inclusive education to address learner diversity.

Deliver 

•  Reopen teacher training colleges since they provided a focused approach in the development of teachers and instill a sense of pride among teachers and teaching in general.
• Put in place internal controls to increase accountability, transparency of the learning process and the use of resources towards education at all government levels and in the classroom.
• Dedicated focus in improving the resources and infrastructure in township and rural schools
• Early in the schooling system the focus should be on producing learners who can read, write and count.
• Celebrate South Africa’s entrepreneurs and learned academic success, conduct career guidance counseling at an early age.
•  Introduce adult education programs, libraries and career guidance programs in South African townships and rural areas to encourage a culture of reading among learners and their families. 
• The Department of education should ensure rapid filling of vacant posts and efficient handling of disciplinary cases, or the support of teacher development
• The government should take political control of the education system and depoliticize unions in the education sector.
• National program to equip the supply of learning materials, the provision of libraries, toilets, repair of windows and leaking roofs, maintenance of desks and infrastructure in South African rural and township schools.
• Provide bursaries, school feeding programs, life orientation programs and counseling programs to learners in rural areas and townships
•  Open vocational training centers and out of school programs to improve the skills of South Africans who are not in school and not working

Debrief 

Review and analyze the plans success and failures to identify areas for potential improvement.
The cost of this process would be astronomical and the plan would need to rolled out in phases.