NEWS
20 March 2019
Residents demanded fair allocation of work on Newcastle contract
By Sibusiso Mdlalose
EDITORIAL
28 February 2019
Reducing unemployment should be the top priority of government
By GroundUp Editors
PHOTO ESSAY
26 February 2019
“Sometimes in a week I get maybe one job. If I am lucky I get two jobs and I make R150 per job.”
By Masixole Feni
22 February 2019
Waste pickers must be integrated into the formal waste management sector, says researcher
By Lucas Nowicki
ANALYSIS
21 February 2019
Quarterly Labour Force Survey is the definitive source for most sectors, but not for mining
By GroundUp Staff
20 February 2019
“There are many opportunities in our townships, it is just a matter of finding them.”
By Mary-Anne Gontsana
18 February 2019
How do we reduce unemployment? That is possibly the most important policy question facing South Africa.
INTERVIEW
Growth in manufacturing is essential but not at the expense of workers
By Aidan Jones
OPINION
To reduce unemployment South Africa needs to prioritise labour-intensive work instead of higher wages, write professors Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass
By Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass
15 February 2019
“I may not be employed but I will never let my children and me starve.”
By Nomfundo Xolo
Business should inform curricula to prepare South Africa for the fourth industrial revolution, writes Business Unity SA CEO Tanya Cohen
By Tanya Cohen
14 February 2019
Khumbuzile Phakamile survives by selling empties to shebeens and trying to find gardening jobs that pay a pittance
By Thembela Ntongana
If people are not willing to invest in a country, it is almost impossible to generate new jobs, writes Professor Vimal Ranchhod
By Vimal Ranchhod
13 February 2019
Manufacturing — a vital industrial sector — has shed 300,000 jobs
“There are so many people in our community who are unemployed yet we still see rubbish lying around”
By Zoë Postman
BRIEF
12 February 2019
Quarterly survey says 27.1% of the labour force is out of work. A year ago it was 26.7%
