South Africa needs to create 10-million jobs in the next 10 years to become a normal country, economist Mike Schussler said on Thursday.
State capacity and coherent economic policy have emerged as two of the key issues if South Africa’s global competitiveness is to improve.
Economists are raising alarm over losses in the private sector and growth in government jobs.
Raul Castro has proposed term limits for Cuba’s rulers, including himself, in an unprecedented effort to rejuvenate the island’s political leadership.
The recent uprisings in North Africa highlight how youth unemployment fuelled unrest, World Bank officials said on Thursday.
History of TV manufacturing companies holds lesson for South Africa.
Job creation will be a priority throughout all spheres of government this year, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 February 2011
It seemed pretty clear that jobs would be the principal theme of the State of the Nation Address.
SA intends to create a R10-billion fund to tackle massive unemployment, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday.
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/ 31 January 2011
The Independent Democrats said it was shocking that the ANC suggested that unemployed people should take any job, even if it paid below the breadline.
Trade unionists attacked Labour Minister Nelisiwe Oliphant on Monday over the government’s stance on "decent work".
Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant on Monday added her voice to the debate on "decent work", at the annual labour policy conference in Pretoria.
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/ 21 January 2011
The ANC kicked off 2011 in confident mode, its president Jacob Zuma declaring to a packed stadium that this year would be the one when job creation would be tackled in earnest.
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/ 17 January 2011
Come January each year, thousands of matrics enter the South African job market only to discover that it isn’t so much a “market” as a car-boot sale.
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/ 10 January 2011
Jobs in the retail sector received a boost from festive spending, but overall employment was down in December.
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/ 6 December 2010
To realise its vision, the country has to address rampant unemployment.
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/ 5 November 2010
The United States created 151 000 jobs in October, much better than expected amid a weak recovery.
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/ 27 October 2010
We’re faced with the highest rate of unemployment in South Africa for the past five years. But monetary policy alone can’t solve the problem.
The government says it intends to create five million jobs over the next decade with a "New Growth Path" plan.
Everyone knows cutting housing benefits just takes us down the route to US-style ghettos
One in six adults is unemployed but the ANC’s economic report mentions ‘jobs’ only twice.
History continues to judge Africans harshly. A fundamental reality is that Africa is behind other continents in many respects.
SA’s unemployment rate climbed to 25,3% in the second quarter of 2010, a slight increase from 25,2% in the first three months of the year.
Although employment fell across all job types, it declined most sharply in the highly cyclical construction and trade sectors.
South African businesses have grown more worried about the direction of economic policy and the impact of above-inflation pay rises.
South Africa’s latest unemployment figures were a cause for concern, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
The unemployment rate for the first quarter of 2010 increased 0,9 of a percentage point to 25,2%, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday.
Creating more jobs is South Africa’s most critical challenge, Deputy Minister of Finance Nhlanhla Nene said in Johannesburg on Friday.
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/ 9 February 2010
SA’s official unemployment rate edged lower in the fourth quarter of 2009, halting massive job losses.
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/ 25 January 2010
Workers have yet to see any proof of a recovery from the recession, despite what academics and the media are saying, Cosatu says.
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/ 17 December 2009
It will be a black Christmas for about five million South Africans this year after the devastating economic crisis, Cosatu said on Thursday.
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/ 15 December 2009
The formal sector has lost about 330 000 jobs in the past 12 months, according to trade union Solidarity.