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Nationalisation
Category: Articles/Politics
... rights. History tells us that sustained unemployment, marginalisation, poverty and homelessness will eventually result in civil and human rights violations as protests and mass action threaten law and ...Wednesday, 25 August 2010 -
Privatising war
Category: Articles/Politics
... jobs programme, the US unemployment rate would be over 11.5% instead of the present 9.5%. It came as no surprise that, when Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently announced plans to cut spending on ...Thursday, 19 August 2010 -
Cabinet lekgotla
Category: Articles/Politics
... of the Gautrain in the next year, and the countrywide expansion of bus rapid transit systems. Youth development There was a particular focus on the challenge of youth unemployment and skills, and a ...Tuesday, 27 July 2010 -
Cabinet lekgotla - Full report
Category: Reports/Reports
... pipeline, the completion of the Gautrain in the next year, and the countrywide expansion of bus rapid transit systems. Youth development There was a particular focus on the challenge of youth unemployment ...Tuesday, 27 July 2010 -
Mining woes - Full Report
Category: Reports/Reports
... Glynos warned that the focus must shift to production and not mechanisation in order to fight off unemployment. A widely welcomed, if minor, adjustment to the labour laws regime aimed at improving the ...Tuesday, 20 July 2010 -
Post World Cup
Category: Articles/Sport
... programme connected to the Fifa Soccer World Cup now largely something of the past, high unemployment – coupled to tense labour relations manifesting itself in the current wage negotiations season – adds ...Tuesday, 13 July 2010 -
The South African story
Category: Articles/Politics
... poverty, unemployment, crime and the failure of the education system. De Klerk said that “these are enormous problems - but to a greater or lesser extent, they are the kind of problems that confront many ...Tuesday, 06 July 2010 -
Green economy
Category: Articles/Environment
... for clothing from animals and plants. Fundamental differences The green economy battle cry has in the most recent years increasingly been positioned as an instrument to overcome problems such as unemployment, ...Tuesday, 29 June 2010 -
A new economic order - Full Report
Category: Reports/Reports
... the inability of governments to come to grips with the problem of unemployment, and even the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have dealt body blows to the hopes that the world economy can, driven ...Monday, 21 June 2010 -
A new economic order
Category: Articles/Politics
... the inability of governments to come to grips with the problem of unemployment, and even the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have dealt body blows to the hopes that the world economy can, driven ...Monday, 21 June 2010 -
Staying ahead of the pack
Category: Articles/Leading Ladies
... countries now must deal with the fallout from the crisis – high debt levels, unemployment, and slower growth for some time to come. Until the recovery is strong enough to build up jobs and bring down unemployment, ...Friday, 04 June 2010 -
Seeing the vision
Category: Articles/Other
... part of our public discourse in which issues are personalised and people are demonised. “The vast majority of our people share common concerns about poverty and unemployment and crime. We also share a ...Friday, 04 June 2010 -
Unemployment
Category: Articles/Other
... that primarily focused on job creation and service delivery. One year on, it seems to have fallen far short on both scores. The combination of delivery failure and an unemployment crisis is creating a ...Tuesday, 11 May 2010 -
Freedom Day scorecard
Category: Reports/Reports
... thousands of educated young people each year. What is perhaps worse for them than a partially dysfunctional education system, is being ejected into a vacuum of unemployment and zero future prospects, thus ...Wednesday, 28 April 2010 -
Zimbabwean lessons
Category: Articles/Politics
... lies a failed economy. Zimbabwe not long ago boasted the world's highest inflation rate - 231 million percent a year - and a 90% unemployment rate. Zimbabwe is a country richly endowed with natural resources ...Monday, 19 April 2010 -
Who controls History?
Category: Articles/Politics
... policies, and says nothing of the massive unemployment visited on the majority of South Africa’s poor or of the record increases in socio-economic inequality. A similar kind of ‘history’ is presented ...Monday, 12 April 2010 -
Publisher's Note
Category: Opinions/Publishers Notes
... adopting a best-person-for-the-job attitude, South Africa could well benefit from a foreign aid of teachers: teachers to teach teachers, as well as students at ascending levels. With unemployment rife ...Thursday, 08 April 2010 -
OECD on recovery
Category: Articles/Politics
... The report says that unemployment will persist at higher levels than before the crisis, while investments will be riskier as the cost of capital rises. The recession has eroded the potential output of ...Monday, 15 March 2010 -
Corruption watch
Category: Articles/Politics
... unemployment-related differences between Cosatu and the ANC, it has been particularly Vavi’s anti-corruption and anti-enrichment campaign that has caused the neck hairs of ANC leaders to bristle. "When ...Tuesday, 09 March 2010 -
Road to recovery could be bumpy
Category: Articles/Other
... businesses from panicking and derailing. 2010 is likely to be harder”. Chait says he still expects repercussions to be meted out “from lumpy bailouts and over capacity”. He cautions that unemployment ...Monday, 08 March 2010
