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Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi(Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ACTION SA

Job schemes and broken dreams

Plans like the one announced by employment and labour minister Thulas Nxesi won’t move the needle on joblessness This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers.…

  • Sarah Smit
1 min read
Unemployed men inJohannesburg wait on a street corner for work for part-time work. Photo: Naashon Zalk/Bloomberg/Getty Images
2024 BUDGET

The Fiscal Cliff | Shallow state purse deepens jobs crisis

In this instalment of The Fiscal Cliff – a Mail & Guardian series on how South Africa’s budget has been shaped – Sarah Smit considers the intimate link between the country’s…

  • Sarah Smit
8 min read
A vendor counts out rand banknotes while working in an African craft market in South Africa. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
APPLIED DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH SOLUTIONS

Basic income grant: Peering beyond the endless impossibilities

South Africa’s economy has stagnated and policymakers ought to be looking for solutions that move us forward

  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
Reeling: Volunteers and workers clean up the looted Bara Mall in Soweto. The destruction and theft in the country is a more than R50-million blow to the already struggling economy. (Lucas Sola/AFP)
ALEXANDER FORBES

Violence sparks new calls for basic income grant

Analysts agree that economic relief for the poor is needed but are split on whether a grant should be permanent and whether it is affordable

  • Sarah Smit
8 min read