Alec Hogg: SA’s unemployment lie

Media commentators - and as a result those who consume their ideas - were sent into a renewed funk this week by another rise in SA's official unemployment data.
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Media commentators – and as a result those who consume their ideas – were sent into a renewed funk this week by another rise in SA's official unemployment data. We are told almost half of South Africans are either unemployed or have given up looking for a job.

That paints a picture of looming disaster for the rational mind. With half our countrymen outside the revenue generating net, surely it's only a matter of time before hunger and desperation gets July 2021 to be repeated in the other 11 months? So with all due haste, semigrate to the last outpost of SA civilisation in the Western Cape…

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