The hand-wringing over South Africa’s unemployment “ticking time bomb” (The Mercury’s front-page headline of March 31) overlooks the most basic cause of this tragic situation: socialism is the parent of unemployment. Thanks to their promotion of...
It is a sad but well-known fact that the South Durban Basin is plagued by unemployment and impoverishment. The bright hopes of poverty alleviation which the proposed dig-out port once promised, never materialised. Yet now there are voices...
Sadly, Moegammad Nackerdien and Derek Yu’s insights on the job crisis that has been worsening for the past 25 years (Business Report, April 15) fail to touch on the chief underlying cause of unemployment. Like so many others who have attempted to...
In lamenting the fact that unemployment stands at almost ten million, it is amazing that Kabelo Khumalo (Business Report, January 9) fails to question the reasons unemployment has tripled since 1994. Down the years numerous studies have pointed...
eThekwini mayor Gumede’s idea of job creation is typical of her socialist mindset (Mercury, February 23). Prescription and rigid regulation do not promote economic growth and poverty alleviation. The job of government should be to free-up...
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