Eskom price hike is ‘unsustainable’
To turn SA’s youth unemployment crisis around, we need to believe in young people’s potential, but also come up with a concrete, inclusive action plan
Treasury officials will model the effect of the grant on the fiscus if the need arises
South Africa added more than half a million workers to its unemployed labour force in the second quarter of 2021
Food inflation was unchanged at 6.7% in July, but remained elevated on continued upward pressure from prices for meat and the oils and fats category.
Starving StatsSA of its ability to measure inequality may be a short-term face-saving strategy but it does not make the inequality disappear
Last week’s violence will likely slow South Africa’s economic growth, the central bank’s monetary policy committee said on Thursday afternoon
Any further extensions of Ters payments will impede the UIF’s ability to pay normal claims for unemployment and parental leave
Critics argue that South Africa’s latest submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a unilateral and fraught exercise
The freedom struggle and labour veteran says the law is soft on criminals and perpetrators must be punished
The Covid-19 social relief of distress grant was terminated at the end of April, but research shows it aided job recovery
GDP growth may be encouraging but it doesn’t mean much for SA’s millions of unemployed
There is ample evidence that trickle-down economics do not work
The economy is still 2.7% smaller than it was in the first quarter of 2020
The unemployment rate reached 32.6%, the highest since the survey was launched in 2008, in the first three months of 2021
Reserve Bank stands at the ready to act if the rise in inflation threatens to become permanent
The miners are in a comfortable position as the world creeps towards a lower-carbon future
The self-employed were nearly three times less likely to work during the hard lockdown, economists found
Women in the personal services sector and young people have been hard hit by the pandemic in terms of employment, but they struggled even before Covid-19
Total employment increased by 76 000 between September and December 2020, but 11 000 full-time jobs were lost in the same period
But higher petrol and electricity prices are expected to drive up price inflation throughout the economy
The portfolio committee on public service and administration says it will call for additional funding so Stats SA can render its services effectively
The already turbulent labour market could see more strain if aspiring students lose out
But the country’s GDP growth in the fourth quarter of last year shows positive signs of recovery, at 6.3%
The fund – the main safety net for unemployed workers – will run at an almost R20-billion deficit
According to Statistics South Africa, the unemployment rate reached 32.5% in the last months of 2020 — the highest since the quarterly labour-force survey began
Despite the government’s efforts to lessen the economic shock of the pandemic and the lockdown, businesses are struggling to keep their doors open
If herd immunity is reached and life returns to ‘normal’, people may switch spending to things they gave up and the desire to DIY may subside
The country’s economy grew at an annualised rate of 66.1%, marking the strongest pace of expansion since at least 1993
Fear of contracting the coronavirus while fighting off other shoppers will probably change how people shop for sales
Industry professionals warn that, although well intentioned, the Bill to enable fund holders to get some of their savings before retiring can do harm
Evidence suggests that job losses triggered by the lockdown may be long lasting