Joblessness set to burst our comfortable bubbles
Covid-19 has severely exacerbated child hunger and malnutrition, with millions of households reportedly running out of money to buy food during the lockdown last year.
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SA’s unemployment numbers don’t take informal sector into account – GG Alcock
“We have to define how we measure unemployment. A big problem with the numbers that we see is that it says unemployment – not formal unemployment.”
Youth unemployment a major challenge in SA – here’s how to tackle it effectively
Prior to the pandemic the unemployment rate (including people who had given up looking for work) was just under 70% for people aged 15 to 24.
Too big to fail? Collapse of Edcon would worsen SA joblessness
Edcon has 30,000 employees and floor space that accounts for a 10th of the occupancy in the country’s biggest malls.
Anthea Jeffery: The ‘Hate’ Bill – Unnecessary, unconstitutional and likely to be deeply damaging
Anthea Jeffery unpacks the proposed Hate Speech Bill and is concerned the underlying reasons for it may be detrimental to South Africa.
Cathy Buckle: The Zimbabwean unthinkable – fighting with ‘button’ sticks
While Cathy Buckle is seeing all walks of life get behind the green, black, yellow, red and white flag of Zimbabwe, she knows it’s going to be ‘Hard’ fight.
Ivan Epstein: Small business jobs saviour yet voiceless at Davos.
As the elite descend on Davos and look to solve the world’s problems, which include joblessness, Ivan Epstein asks the very valid point: Where’s small business?
Ngcobo: Political leadership failed – Nationalisation ‘economic joke’, need jobs
Bongani Ncgobo looks at the current political leadership and how it has failed on all sides. He fears the talk of nationalisation, which reared its head off the back of the recent EFF march.