The loss of thousands of jobs, partly because of digitilisation, in South Africa in recent days, does not augur well for employment creation in the short term in the continent's most advanced economy.This is according to an economist day...
·almost 5 years ago
The picture in South Africa is a bleak one for the average 15 – 24 year old. Many have finished their schooling with a qualification of little value in the eyes of employers. And they lack the basic skills that employers now need. The re...
·almost 5 years ago
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday announced policies and programmes to create 10 million jobs in the next five years. The initiative falls within President Muhammadu Buhari's resolve to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty...
·almost 5 years ago
South Africa introduced a child support grant 21 years ago in 1998, four years after the advent of democracy. The grant has been a human rights milestone and a mark of progress in the full realisation of children’s rights. It is one of t...
·over 4 years ago
Persistent unemployment has become synonymous with the youth experience across South Africa. Youth unemployment rates are almost four times higher than the regional average – 62% of South Africans between 15 and 35 years are unemployed a...
·over 4 years ago
SA's official unemployment rate jumped to 29% in the second quarter of the year, the highest jobless rate since the start of 2008. The unemployment figures were published by Stats SA on Tuesday morning. The country's unemployment rate wa...
·over 4 years ago
South Africans are still to see what the new dawn promised by its President Cyril Ramaphosa will bring, or if it will even break. Long jail sentences for those that have looted the country would be a good thing. But it’s not yet clear if...
·over 4 years ago
Economic disparities, inequality and unemployment, particularly among young people, remain pervasive in South Africa. Lack of access to services and inadequate living conditions also affect people’s quality of life, health and well-being...
·over 4 years ago
What can one do when the golden walls become grey as a result of despair and unbearable living conditions such as feeding from bins and having people judge you without knowing you, never mind your circumstances!! A CRY A BOY SLEEPING U...
·over 3 years ago
Two unemployed men tout for casual jobs on a street in Cape Town. EFE-EPA/Nic Bothma South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a three month extension of a special R350 (US$24) a month COVID-19 grant for unemployed adult...
·about 3 years ago
Unemployment in South Africa is chronically high. The longest upswing in the South African economy in the last three decades was when it grew at an average rate of 4% per annum between 1998 and 2008. The 2008 global recession ended th...
·about 3 years ago
Failure by local government to provide basic services has led to protests around South Africa. Now, some residents are resorting to self-help. EFE-EPA/Kim Ludbrook In December 2020, the High Court in Mahikeng, the capital of South A...
·about 3 years ago
A lot has been said about the so-called triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality besetting South Africa. The one problem that is not being mentioned is that the country suffers from the erosion of the legitimacy of th...
·over 3 years ago
Economic growth cannot be realised and jobs cannot be created without undertaking the difficult but necessary structural reforms that will improve the business and investment climate
·over 1 year ago
As South Africa journeys on the road to economic recovery following an intense lock down due to Covid 19, much effort will still need to be invested in rebuilding economic stability. According to a report from Statistics South Africa T...
·over 3 years ago
Stats SA said that the number of employed people in the country remained almost unchanged at 15 million, although there was a slight decrease of 28,000, according to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the first quarter of 2021 release...
·almost 3 years ago
Tomorrow sees the release of South Africa’s second-quarter unemployment figures, which will provide a picture of our long-term jobless crisis that the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated. The first quarter’s reading of 32.6% was the highes...
·over 2 years ago
If we thought we had a jobs crisis on our hands before this pandemic, we now we have something much, much larger than we had ever imagined. The first thing that came to mind as I went through the second-quarter unemployment statistics re...
·over 2 years ago
State-owned enterprises are companies in which government owns, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the shares. Worldwide, states own 10% of the largest companies. In South Africa, state-owned enterprises play a significant role in ...
·over 2 years ago
Malnutrition in all its forms, includes undernutrition (wasting, stunting, underweight), inadequate vitamins or minerals, overweight and obesity.
·11 days ago
The latest figures from Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) show that women are less likely to find employment compared with men.
·8 months ago
In October 2020 the South African government launched a collection of public employment programmes, initially intended as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative, called the Presidential Employment Stimulus, has been extended...
·about 1 month ago
The problem is that the implementation of strategy is in limbo. No government agency has been willing to take responsibility for it. That’s because there is no direct budgetary allocation, given the highly constrained government purse.
·4 months ago
The latest liquidation numbers from Stats SA reveal that over 1 600 businesses closed down in 2023 however, this signals a significant reduction from 2022.
·2 months ago
The Multiparty Charter has announced an economy and jobs recovery plan that it says it will use to turn things around if it wins in the upcoming elections.
·2 months ago
Minister of Health, Dr. Joe Phaahla has announced that unemployed doctors who are keen to work in the public sector will be hired by April 2024.
·about 1 month ago
Youth leadership specialist and strategist Matsetsebale Tleane believes it’s high time the youth of South Africa take a stand and change the status quo for the sake of their future.
·3 days ago