Employment programmes cannot replace economic growth in improving youth employability, but they play a crucial role in helping them find work.
Persistent rampant povery has been blamed on the compromises made by the African National Congress during negotiations to end apartheid.
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Book sheds new light on the evolution of the economic policy of the African National Congress, South Africa’s governing party.
The 1820 Settler Monument in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, commemmorates the arrival of 5,000 British colonial settlers.
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It is not hard to see the roots of 20th century apartheid policies in the legacy of the British settlers.
A police officer at a 24-hour roadblock in Cape Town, South Africa after the country went into lockdown.
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A national minimum wage could benefit young people who have jobs and stimulate those who have given up trying to find work. But those without work need additional help.
A large number of poor South Africans live in informal settlements.
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Inequalities in the nutritional status of poor and rich have been mitigated through various social protection policies, but children in South Africa remain at risk of malnutrition.
Chief Research Specialist in Democracy and Citizenship at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State
Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and Director of the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS), University of the Witwatersrand