unemployment

OpinionVusi Gumede | 2019-11-09 00:00:00

There is a lot of talk about the South African economy but not enough concrete economic policy recommendations. Even the treasury’s revised...

SA unemployment soars to 11-year high

BusinessThando Maeko | 2019-10-29 16:52:00

South Africa’s ailing economy continues to shed jobs, causing the unemployment rate to climb to its highest level since 2008, according to the...

Political leadership is in a mess

OpinionRichard Calland | 2019-10-25 00:00:00

Saturday. Santiago. I rise early not to watch the first rugby quarter-final but the historic “super Saturday” sitting of the British House of...

The idealism of #ImStaying has its limits

OpinionAndile Zulu | 2019-10-10 00:00:00

Disappointment and dissatisfaction seem to define post-apartheid South Africa. These attitudes manifest in different ways. For the millions of...

The farm workers who produce our food are the most vulnerable to hunger

OpinionStephen Devereux, Ruth Hall, Colette Solomon | 2019-10-08 00:00:00

It is tragic and outrageous that the people who produce the food that we eat in South Africa are those most likely to go hungry. Some people think...

Judgment day for corrupt municipality

OpinionGraham Pote | 2019-10-04 00:00:00

Can or will a municipality be dissolved by the order of a court? Judgment in Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) vs Premier of the Eastern Cape &...

A million children can’t attend creche

EducationBongekile Macupe | 2019-09-19 17:30:00

About 1.1-million children aged between three and five in South Africa do not attend an early childhood learning programme. Most of these children...

Beyond baobabble, toil & trouble

BusinessKevin Davie | 2019-09-20 00:00:00

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni, no doubt frustrated at the somnolence of the economy and a noticeable lack of ideas to regenerate it, last week...

Jobseekers suffocate in the shade of Sasol’s smokestacks

NationalSarah Smit | 2019-09-20 00:00:00

In the shadow of Sasol in Sasolburg is the dilapidated office of the Metsimaholo Labour Forum.

Prejudice against immigrants cuts across class and race

NationalJacques Coetzee | 2019-09-05 17:00:00

The most common solution believed by South Africans to deal with xenophobia is to expel immigrants, research by the Human Sciences Research Council...

What does ‘fourth industrial revolution’ even mean?

NationalM&G Data Desk | 2019-09-06 00:00:00

Over the past three years, very excited politicians have used every opportunity to talk about 4IR as the next phase of South Africa’s...

R13bn state jobs project heads to court

NationalSarah Smit | 2019-08-30 00:00:00

As the department of co-operative governance tries to iron out the kinks in its Community Work Programme, the flaws in the CWP will be under...

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