9 March 2022 - SA’s unemployment rate is at 46.6% on the expanded definition, which includes discouraged jobseekers. It is a crisis that threatens the stability of the nation, as the July riots showed. It is also an affront to human dignity, and a betrayal of the hopes and aspirations of millions of poor South Africans.
24 February 2022 - “South Africa now pays grants to more than 46% of the population.” This line in Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2022 Budget speech perfectly encapsulates the situation into which the ruling party’s ideological and policy choices have forced South Africa.
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