How to reduce unemployment? Two opposing views

How do we reduce unemployment? That is possibly the most important policy question facing South Africa.

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GroundView | 18 February 2019

Low wages will not solve South Africa’s unemployment problem, argues economist

Growth in manufacturing is essential but not at the expense of workers

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Interview | 18 February 2019

South Africa’s failure to create manufacturing jobs

To reduce unemployment South Africa needs to prioritise labour-intensive work instead of higher wages, write professors Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass

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Opinion | 18 February 2019

Lawlessness at Gupta mines was behind deadly tragedy

Men trapped underground at Gloria Coal Mine were allegedly stealing cable

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Feature | 18 February 2019

CPUT shuts building after flood

One student arrested, suspected of causing flood and “more arrests expected to follow in due course”

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Brief | 18 February 2019

CPUT nursing students say residences are not secure

Athlone campus SRC deny college management met with them

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News | 15 February 2019

Load shedding is killing small businesses

“We are losing profits. Our clients are impatient and always in a hurry. They can’t wait for about two and a half hours.”

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News | 15 February 2019

Buffalo City mum on its shoddy RDP houses

Residents say they occupied the poorly built, incomplete houses after they had stood empty for six months

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News | 15 February 2019

Nelisa Pambane travels hundreds of kilometers to sell scrap metal

“I may not be employed but I will never let my children and me starve.”

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News | 15 February 2019

Hundreds left homeless after shack fire in Dunoon

People have lost everything in the fire, but luckily there were no fatalities

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Brief | 15 February 2019

Stellenbosch builds world class institute to investigate deadly diseases

R1 billion Biomedical Research Institute will be ready by 2022

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Science | 15 February 2019

Changing the way our colleges work is key to reducing unemployment

Business should inform curricula to prepare South Africa for the fourth industrial revolution, writes Business Unity SA CEO Tanya Cohen

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Opinion | 15 February 2019

PRASA says rail enforcement units are succeeding

Capetonians spend more time in traffic because people have stopped using Metrorail, says city councillor

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News | 14 February 2019

NEHAWU begins nationwide shutdown of colleges

Shutdown “indefinite” until demands are met says national spokesperson

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Brief | 14 February 2019

Grahamstown residents queue for hours for water

Ageing infrastructure and drought blamed

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News | 14 February 2019

“I am living and working for the next meal”

Khumbuzile Phakamile survives by selling empties to shebeens and trying to find gardening jobs that pay a pittance

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News | 14 February 2019