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Latest figures show SA still has world’s worst unemployment

23 August 2022 - Despite indicating mixed results, the latest Stats SA jobs numbers show – as the IRR forewarned – that South Africa has failed to budge from ...

Latest GDP figures reveal threats to race relations, and democracy

8 June 2022 - However they are sugar-coated, Stats SA’s latest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures bring more bad news to South Africa. The average person’s ...

Latest QLFS lays bare the failures of BEE

The latest unemployment statistics presented in Stats SA’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) are another reminder that race-based policies, like BEE, have ...

Let’s get serious about SA’s 9.5 million jobless young people – IRR’s Youth Day challenge to Thulas Nxesi

10 June 2022 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has offered to help labour minister Thulas Nxesi analyse the policies at the root of South Africa’s ...

Letter: A hefty push - Daily Dispatch

The article "New Race Quotas Need More Consultation" (DD May 17) refers. It is a huge challenge to build and maintain the skilled workforces that less affluent ...

31 March 2022 - That South Africa's unemployment rate has increased to a record high of 35.3% is the result of the ideas and policies that government chose to ...

6 October 2021 - Business Leadership SA CEO Busi Mavuso applauds the finance minister’s reform message and emphasises that success hinges on effective ...

Letter: Draft employment regulations violate the constitution - BusinessLIVE

Sandile July and Nonkosazana Nkosi address only one concern about the effect of the new draft employment equity regulations — that they will lead to job losses ...

10 March 2022 - Regarding drives aimed at unlocking increased investment in SA, Hilary Joffe writes that “The concern is that foreign companies in particular ...

6 November 2020 - The belief that the Covid19 pandemic and the economic ravages of the lockdown would enable policy change and deliver long-elusive reform is ...