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Zakhele Mthembu

Can Informal Businesses solve South Africa’s Unemployment Crisis?

January 5, 2022

Over 13 million individuals are jobless according to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey of 2021. Unemployment means the inability to satisfy one’s preferences, chief among them generating capital to sustain oneself and accumulating it to improve material conditions. That is …

The South African Post Office’s Idea of Monopoly is Wrong

Zakhele Mthembu

May 22, 2021

In recent weeks, the South African Post Office (SAPO) has been in the news after it instituted legal proceedings against courier companies like PostNet and the South African Express Parcel Association, trying to bar them from delivering packages that are …