Unlocking Scalable Youth Employment Through Innovation
Lulaworx is proud to announce a strategic partnership with TechNov8, a meaningful step forward in our mission to deliver scalable, compliant, and sustainable youth employment solutions across South Africa.
This collaboration is designed to bridge the gap between funding, skills development, and real economic participation. By aligning these critical elements, we are creating structured pathways that enable young people to access meaningful work experience and long-term career opportunities.
Combining Strengths for Greater Impact
Through this partnership, Lulaworx brings its expertise in payroll, compliance, and large-scale programme execution, while TechNov8 contributes its strength in technology and innovation.
Together, we are building a model that not only delivers measurable social impact but also ensures long-term sustainability, a key requirement in addressing South Africa’s unemployment challenge at scale.
Introducing the Future: YoMo and the Yomoverse
A key highlight of this partnership is Lulaworx’s involvement in YoMo, South Africa’s fi rst youth-focused Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), developed by TechNov8.
At the core of this innovation is the Yomoverse, a zero-rated opportunity ecosystem that transforms connectivity into access and access into opportunity.
Through zero-rated access, young people can engage with a wide range of services without the burden of high data costs, including:
Job opportunities
Skills development programmes
Training resources
Structured career pathways
By combining affordable connectivity with zero-rated access to opportunities, YoMo removes traditional barriers of cost, access, and connectivity.
This integrated model enables young people across South Africa to actively participate in the digital economy, positioning YoMo not just as a network, but as a launchpad for opportunity, and a transformative engine for inclusive growth, empowerment, and future-ready workforce development.
Driving Access, Opportunity, and Inclusion
By removing the barrier of data costs, this initiative enables greater inclusion and participation in the digital economy, ensuring that more young South Africans can connect to opportunities that drive real change in their lives.
We are incredibly proud to partner with organisations like TechNov8, businesses that are not only commercially driven, but deeply committed to uplifting communities and creating meaningful, lasting impact.
It is through partnerships like these that real change is made possible.
A Shared Vision for the Future
Our shared vision remains clear:
To empower youth, strengthen the workforce, and build an opportunity-driven economy.
At Lulaworx, we believe that collaboration, innovation, and execution at scale are key to unlocking South Africa’s potential, and we remain committed to driving solutions that create lasting impact.
