The unemployment rate increased to 29,1% in the third quarter of 2019
The Western Cape is a successful seeding ground for the DA’s approach to grow small businesses
Initiatives to boost South Africa’s economy could reinforce structural weaknesses without addressing the high levels of inequality
Laws must bring an end to workers’ exploitation
Lawrence Mavundla has criticised the small business proposals in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s jobs summit framework
South Africa, amid fast-changing technology, is producing skilled people, but not enough of them
The presidential jobs summit failed to yield a moratorium from big business on job cuts, sending labour back to the drawing board
Ideas to tackle unemployment have been found and all that is left implementation, President Cyril Ramaphosa said
The minister said local procurement was a valuable tool to tackle unemployment
Unless the country did something ‘extraordinary’, Ramaphosa notes that South Africa will not be able to reduce the unemployment rate to 6% by 2030
The National Jobs Summit, on Thursday and Friday in Midrand, is being touted by President Ramaphosa as an avenue to address the rising jobless rate