By Thuletho Zwane —

Unemployed people are slipping through the cracks because most of the country’s money is locked up in the financial sector.

While Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene delivered his budget speech in Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, Chenai Mpereki (33) and her four-year-old boy were at their usual spot in one of Johannesburg’s most affluent suburbs. On the corner of Jan Smuts and Ruth avenues, you will find her at a small intersection opposite the Dunkeld West Shopping Centre, keeping an eye on her boy, who finds it difficult to sit still on the traffic island.

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