
SA’s unemployment is a national disgrace
A quarter century of failed economic policies tipped South Africa over the brink when Covid-19 hit. There is a solution, if the government is prepared to mobilise its resources.
A quarter century of failed economic policies tipped South Africa over the brink when Covid-19 hit. There is a solution, if the government is prepared to mobilise its resources.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s second round of investment pledges from the public and private sectors doesn’t line up with official government forecasts, negating his five-year plan.
Twenty months after the president’s state of the nation address, which promised to eradicate unemployment, the crisis is now more severe than ever.