/ 24 June 2022

Expand the public service, especially in healthcare and education

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Shortage: Numbers of state healthcare (above) and education workers have not kept up with population growth since 1994, nor have there been enough efforts to rectify apartheid inequalities. Photo: Marco Longari/AFP

The state has to employ another one million people to match international standards

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