SA’s absorption rate is just more than 40%. This is about 20 percentage points below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development average
Our own writing in the media
Georgina Alexander, a researcher at the Institute, argues that the high unemployment rate in South Africa is a symptom of a much larger problem.
The spirit of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Amendment Bill of 2013 (the mining bill) seems to have permeated through to agriculture.
The Research Manager, Lucy Holborn, says that if we are to meaningfully assess the control of the economy in the hands of ordinary black and white South Africans, assigning the state a colour may be muddying the water.
15 January 2018 - Expropriating commercial farms without compensation will condemn the agriculture sector to a similar fate.
There is enough space in the South African media and political terrain to counter the views expressed on ANN7.
A person’s race is what he declares it to be. The Constitution allows measures to promote the achievement of equality that are "designed to protect or advance persons … disadvantaged by unfair discrimination.…"
16 March 2018 - Your report mischaracterises President Cyril Ramaphosa’s plan for property rights (Ratings agencies are happy with Nene, March 14). You write of "his plan to change the Constitution to allow white-owned property to be taken without payment for redistribution to landless blacks". This is not so.
Helen Suzman was right in saying in 1998 that the Employment Equity Act was premature at best — and that the government must first fix the skills shortage among black South Africans. Tragically, that has still to be done. This leaves employers seeking to fulfil their quotas little choice but to take on people who lack experience and competence but have (as the Employment Equity Act states) the "capacity to acquire, within a reasonable time, the ability to do the job".
Frans Cronje, the Deputy Chief Executive at the Institute, says that the DA seems to believe that it needs to play the race game to appeal to black voters but that this sells black voters short.
27 March 2018 - The summit on property rights to be convened jointly at the Gordon Institute of Business Science this week by groups including Parliament and the Nelson Mandela University is a farce.
Miners invest very little in telling this story and this mistake is a primary reason why they have become the target of so much media and activist hostility.
It may indeed be. However, another interpretation of the available evidence is that Zuma remains able to outmanoeuvre his critics and may yet exploit the ANC’s pursuit of year-end unity to put in place an infrastructure that secures his legacy for many years to come.
The Institute's Head of Special Research, Dr Anthea Jeffery, argues that Zapiro's main offence is not disrespecting the office of the president but rather that the insight he has offered with his controversial cartoon "cuts far too close to the bone".
IF THE former minister of finance, Nhlanhla Nene, is quoted correctly saying "we" must take responsibility for the student fees crisis and be prepared to pay more tax, and higher fees
What a disappointing performance by Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane in seeking to defend the admissions policy of the University of Cape Town (No better admission policy than race — for now, June 22).
There are times when some analysts and politicians behave as if avoiding recession is an achievement to be celebrated.
22 January 2018 - But both assurances will hinge on convincing investors that property and assets will remain safe from indiscriminate seizure
Developing countries that do well in manufacturing are those that have large populations. Nigeria was able to overtake SA as Africa’s biggest economy due to the combined buying power of its huge population
Our reading was of a government fiddling, without a plan. There were no announcements on structural reforms, only the now familiar commitments to more taxes and austerity and the need to work together. But you cannot grow an economy out of trouble by taxing its productive sectors more and spending less money. Nor is t