When jobless unite both Left and Right
15 June 2025 - 00:00
The role of an economy is to create wealth, not jobs, but you’d have been hard-pressed to hold onto that in the face of the outrage outgoing Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie stirred up when he told a lunchtime group of journalists last Monday he thought the grey economy was so large that if adequately measured, actual unemployment could be about 10% and not close to 33%...
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