Research paper · policy paper ·
South Africa’s Unemployment Catastrophe: A call for urgent action
Centre for Development and Enterprise · CDE
Abstract
South Africa has the deepest and most persistent unemployment crisis in the world. More than 12 million South Africans want work but cannot find a job. For 17 years, 1 000 people have joined the unemployment queue every day
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Themes
employment
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