REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA COMBINED SECOND PERIODIC REPORT UNDER THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE`S RIGHTS and INITIAL REPORT UNDER THE PROTOCOL TO THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN AFRICA Development Corporation (IDC) close to R3 billion is available for youth entrepreneurship.156 Legislative measures to enhance skills development 251. South Africa has bolstered its efforts to increase opportunities for employment. In this regard, the Labour Department has been running skills development programmes that are suited to the specific needs of a community. The programme targets unemployed people in the communities and the informal sector, the aim of which is for the beneficiaries to be placed in income generating activities that are sustainable. A significant development in this regard involves various amendment of the Skills Development Act, 1998.157 In 2008, the Skills Development Amendment Act, 2008158 was enacted to broaden the scope of the Skills Development Act and to provide anew for the functions and composition of the National Skills Authority and in 2011 the Skills Development Amendment Act, 2011159 was enacted. Employment Equity 252. The Commission for Employment Equity published the population group and gender workforce profile distribution trends in the first four occupational levels in terms of employment equity from 2003 to 2013. Table 3 below shows the population group distribution at top management level from 2002 to 2013: 156 Media Statement, GCIS, “Overcoming youth unemployment together,” 19 June 2013 Act No. 97 of 1998 158 Act No. 37 of 2008 159 Act No. 26 of 2011 157 74