A grand pact is needed to rise to the national emergency of SA’s jobs crisis
SA’s unemployment disaster is a political and moral crisis and requires a drastic response to avoid prevent another violent rupture
05 December 2021 - 00:00
The latest unemployment numbers released by Stats SA in its Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) this week spurred Peter Bruce, hardly a radical, in his column for Business Day, to suggest that such news, in any nation, should be cause for the immediate resignation of the government. The economy since January 2020, reported the QLFS, had shed 100,000 jobs per month — tsunami of total job losses in this period of 2.2-million!..
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