10 million South Africans suffer in silence and 900 hundred join them every day. We are all too clever as we talk about public protectors, scandals, politics and infighting. BUT we and our government love forgetting the unemployed. Journalists forget them, Politicians talk for them but never too them. Working people hope they never have to deal with this problem, Economists have no idea what to do about them, It’s a mess.
The reality is that wider unemployment numbers from all three countries below show that the USA and Germany combined have fewer unemployed people than SA! We are at present one of perhaps 3 countries with more than 10 million people unemployed. (The others are China and perhaps India. comparable numbers are not easy for wider definitions) Both those countries have 20 times the population than SA!
The next graphic shows the standard rates of selected big economies around the globe. SA unemployment is now higher than Greece ever was d
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