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South Africa’s unemployment statistics for the fourth quarter of 2022 revealed that 7.8 million South Africans were unemployed, and 18.3% had been unemployed for a year or longer. The figures further revealed that higher levels of unemployment affect mostly women …
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If job seekers in South Africa currently had the right to freely enter voluntary contracts with employers at wages and on conditions acceptable to both parties, the country would not have mass unemployment. Figures recently released by Statistics SA confirm …
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James Meade, the British recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics, reported in 1961 that Mauritius faced a bleak future. The country was reliant on a single crop (sugar), subject to weather and price shocks, threatened by overpopulation, had no …
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Winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup has shown what South Africans can do if they put aside differences and work together. What can we do to allow the spirit and courage that the Springboks displayed on the rugby field to …
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Economist Thomas Sowell said: “It is not what education teaches us directly, but how well it prepares us to learn ourselves that is the ultimate measure of its value.”
A change in policy that establishes an educational training-for-life environment attractive …
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