The evil of unemployment should be our common enemy
Government and industry must put aside ideological differences
08 November 2020 - 00:01
SA has unacceptably high levels of unemployed people, in particular among the youth. To quote Ellen Wilkinson, the former British Labour politician, “unemployment is a national danger and a national scandal”. The level of employment is an important measure of the economic health of society, and by that measure alone we are failing as a country. The latest figures released by Stats SA pre-lockdown indicated an official unemployment rate of 30%, with the expanded definition of unemployment, which includes discouraged work seekers, significantly higher. In the second quarter of 2020, the economy shed a further 2.2-million jobs as a result of the lockdown measures taken in response to the pandemic...
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