There can be no doubt that our massive unemployment, and particularly the fact that more than 70% of our young people are unemployed, is South Africa’s key long-term challenge and threat. However, there are few signs that the government is breaking much sweat in trying to solve this existenti.
A billboard on an apartment building in Cape Town s CBD. (Nardus Engelbrecht/Gallo Images)
Executive director of the Centre for Development and Enterprise Ann Bernstein said government needed to adopt a different attitude towards business.
Bernstein said government has not learnt from their mistakes it made at the beginning of the pandemic.
She said accessing a vaccine and rolling it out would be the most important priority for government to get the economy back on track.
Executive director of the Centre for Development and Enterprise Ann Bernstein said on Wednesday that government s handling of lockdown as well as its treatment of business has been weak and costly, despite the fact that business has been willing to assist government as a social partner in responding to the pandemic.