Opinion

We have to get working on the unemployment crisis

There will be no jobs without inclusive growth, and without rethinking our industrial policy and approach to labour — especially ‘unskilled’ work

02 February 2020 - 00:00 By ANN BERNSTEIN

Ten million unemployed and rising: SA has the deepest unemployment crisis in the world. In no other country has as large a proportion of the population been without work for as long...

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