Job policies don't add up, says statistician-general

15 May 2016 - 02:00
By ASHA SPECKMAN

Statistician-general Pali Lehohla is as unapologetically forthright about the government's jobs policies, which he says are inadequately devised, as he is about wearing a canary-yellow suit until the end of next month.From his vantage point of crunching the national statistics, he sees that far from eradicating the legacy of apartheid, some government policies are hopelessly inadequate and have resulted in unintended consequences: at this rate, the country will be unable to significantly reverse...

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