Job creation

Malema’s marchers strangers to world of work – Linda Master

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The world is moving into unpredictable socioeconomic terrain. South Africans need to take responsibility and work themselves out of unemployment. There are very few adults who cannot learn something at almost any age. If only the marchers would shift their focus away from Malema’s exuberant fantasy life towards focusing on establishing and supporting microbusinesses. Tiny […]

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More grants than jobs – lifted content

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I don't like lifting stories wholesale but this is a very important story.  I've editied down a bit.  It comes from the Business Report. South Africa has more people receiving money from social grants than there are people with jobs, according to Mike Schussler, the chief executive of Economists.co.za.  There were 13.8 million grant recipients

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Govt. commits to improving lives of the disabled and a bit on the advisory council

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Got this off the Eyewitness News website.  It's the last paragraph that interests me “By 2014 we should have achieved our employment equity targets, the Welcome to The Ollie Halsall Archive minimum of two percent according to the Employment Equity Act,” said Motlanthe. Hmm – by that stage everyone else is supposed to have reached

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Well, well, well

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I was convinced it would happen.  This story happened across my desk The breakaway party spearheaded by former cabinet minister Mosiuoa Lekota and former Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa, wants to capitalise on assumptions that the ruling party's economic policy has shifted more to the left than it cares to admit. When you read that article

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Leave the second economy to its own devices

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John Kane-Berman wrote a very illuminating opinion in the Business Day on Thursday last week – No second-guessing value of informal job creation.  Government has always harboured an ambition to try and eliminate the second economy (aka the informal sector — officially defined as businesses that are not registered in any way).  However Deputy President,

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