The numbers speak for themselves: Africa’s smallholder farmers can be agriculture’s game changers of the 21st century.
A frail-looking President Jacob Zuma delivered his State of the Nation Address, promising to improve the struggling economy and creating more jobs.
Jacob Zuma is a competent job creator – he conjured up six new ministerial positions in a single press conference. But SA needs private-sector jobs.
The youth wage subsidy is a shameless populist attempt at grabbing the youth vote, writes Agang SA’s Philip Machanick.
How hard work and a willingness to learn, plus a bit of luck, transformed a life.
North West finance MEC Paul Sebego has announced a project to create temporary jobs for 20 000 youth, but the selection criteria are a mystery.
Employment Bills are top of the list as the ANC eagerly pushes through legislation ahead of the 2014 elections.
The opposition party’s manifesto includes the vow to provide equitable access to land for all and create a million jobs by 2018.
SA’s Government Employees Pension Fund says it has allocated R13-billion to three new funds targeted at boosting employment and economic growth.
That’s the only way South Africa will meet the ambitious goals of the NDP, says Godsell.
A new body called the US-South Africa Business Council will be created to help promote trade ties between America and South Africa.
Growth in SA is going to require targeted strategies in collaboration with business, rather than government focusing on gross domestic product growth.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan tightened his belt, chided the country’s critics and delivered a no-nonsense medium-term budget policy statement.
About 600-million new jobs will be needed worldwide in the next 15 years to absorb a burgeoning workforce, mainly in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Is South Africa facing a widespread mining revolution capable of disrupting an industry vital to everything from job creation to foreign exchange?
Ebrahim Patel told Parliament last week that SA has a strategy to deal with the pending crisis. This is an edited version of the speech he gave.
The creation of "mini-jobs", which allow people to take on work without paying tax or national insurance, is being considered by the British treasury.
The ANC has no appetite for the youth wage subsidy put forward by the Treasury last year in an attempt to alleviate the high youth unemployment rate.
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/ 24 February 2012
The government has claimed that job creation is its top priority yet it has cut the allocated budget by almost R4-billion from last year.
A national strategy is teaching communities basic skills and putting food on the table.
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/ 17 February 2012
At a time when job creation is the focus of economic policy, a colossal fight is brewing over the reliability of employment statistics in SA.
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/ 23 January 2012
South Africa aims to create five million jobs by 2020 but has only created 624 000 in the last decade, according to a survey released on Monday.
Government says Cabinet’s January lekgotla, which will form the basis of the president’s state of the nation speech, is due to begin on January 17.
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/ 10 January 2012
According to the Adcorp Employment Index, over 100 000 new jobs were created in December 2011 with temporary work growing the fastest.
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/ 11 November 2011
National planning commission outlines proposals that will help the failing state to meet its long-term goals.
President Jacob Zuma says the government wants more public sector internships to increase job creation and aid skills development.
Pravin Gordhan needs SA’s economy grow at a rate of around 7% per annum in order to create jobs and keep the country globally competitive.
Jobs are not being created fast enough to absorb the rising labour force, despite two consecutive quarters of job creation in SA, says Ebrahim Patel.
The number of people who access credit is much higher than the job statistics warrant. Why?
The market turmoil of the past week has been a boon for 24-hour business channels, writes <b>Maya Fisher-French</b>.
Two new commissions are to be chaired by Jacob Zuma and Kgalema Motlanthe in an effort to speed up infrastructure development and job creation.
Fedusa hopes to discuss "green" jobs with Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel when they meet, to follow up on government’s new growth path.