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Statistics South Africa has published the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QFLS) for Q3 2021, showing how continued lockdown restrictions, load shedding, and the July riots impacted jobs in the country.
The results show that the number of employed persons decreased …
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In a recent interview covered in BusinessLive on the 14th of November, Finance minister Enoch Gondongwana noted:
With debt service costs topping R300bn next year as bondholders price in the risk of SA’s borrowing, he said there could never be …
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According to the World Bank’s South Africa Economic Update (Edition 13) titled ‘Building Back Better from Covid-19 with a Special Focus on Jobs,’ the pandemic has exposed long-standing structural weaknesses in the South African economy. These have progressively …
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While much has been written about the advent of the black middle class (however difficult it may be to define) since 1994, not much attention has been paid to how South Africa’s vulnerable middle class or working class may have …
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