Redistribution alone will not solve unemployment

By DDR —

The fundamental claim of this book is that the overwhelming challenge that South Africa faces, and has to date failed to address, is unemployment. The current unemployment statistics are appalling and fall especially on young African youths who were promised a better future in 1994. As the premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Senzo Mchunu, put it to us, “The pain in our stomachs is the rate of unemployment, the pain of poverty, the pain of the gap between the rural and urban areas, the pain of underdevelopment.” This challenge, he said, “is threatening our future”.

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