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Job-creation was a leading goal of government policy during the first decade of democracy in South Africa. However, little success has been achieved in the struggle to create sufficient jobs in the economy. Extensive unemployment remains stubbornly entrenched. Using the expanded definition of unemployment (which includes people who have given up looking for work), the unemployment rate was estimated to be 28.6% at the time of the transition to democracy (Altman 2003:5). The most recent estimates (March 2004) find the unemployment rate to be 41.2% using the expanded definition and 27.8% using the strict definition (Statistics South Africa 2004).2 This translates, respectively, into 8.4 million or 4.6 million unemployed people, depending on the definition of unemployment being used.
The third is that the overwhelming majority of the unemployed are semi-skilled or unskilled. Fourthly, unemployment in South Africa is not only due to too little demand for labour in the aggregate (linked to insufficient economic growth). The problem is also that the demand for labour does not match the skills profile of the majority of work-seekers (Bhorat 2004). This means, as President Mbeki has pointed out (2002), that much higher rates of economic growth will not, on their own solve the unemployment crisis. The unemployment situation in South Africa has profound implications for poverty, human rights and political stability. Unemployment is associated with extensive and deep poverty at the household level. In the absence of a social assistance programme targeted at the unemployed and with poor access to productive assets (such as land and skills), the majority of the unemployed face a daily struggle to meet their basic needs. This situation is at odds with the Constitution, which gives all South Africans a comprehensive set of justiciable socio-economic rights. It challenges the state to generate and use society’s resources in such a way that everyone – including the millions who are poor due to unemployment – is able to meet basic needs and live a life of dignity.
They dont care about this, lets rather spend millions on a name change(bloody fools
Job-creation was a leading goal of government policy during the first decade of democracy in South Africa. However, little success has been achieved in the struggle to create sufficient jobs in the economy. Extensive unemployment remains stubbornly entrenched. Using the expanded definition of unemployment (which includes people who have given up looking for work), the unemployment rate was estimated to be 28.6% at the time of the transition to democracy (Altman 2003:5). The most recent estimates (March 2004) find the unemployment rate to be 41.2% using the expanded definition and 27.8% using the strict definition (Statistics South Africa 2004).2 This translates, respectively, into 8.4 million or 4.6 million unemployed people, depending on the definition of unemployment being used.
The third is that the overwhelming majority of the unemployed are semi-skilled or unskilled. Fourthly, unemployment in South Africa is not only due to too little demand for labour in the aggregate (linked to insufficient economic growth). The problem is also that the demand for labour does not match the skills profile of the majority of work-seekers (Bhorat 2004). This means, as President Mbeki has pointed out (2002), that much higher rates of economic growth will not, on their own solve the unemployment crisis. The unemployment situation in South Africa has profound implications for poverty, human rights and political stability. Unemployment is associated with extensive and deep poverty at the household level. In the absence of a social assistance programme targeted at the unemployed and with poor access to productive assets (such as land and skills), the majority of the unemployed face a daily struggle to meet their basic needs. This situation is at odds with the Constitution, which gives all South Africans a comprehensive set of justiciable socio-economic rights. It challenges the state to generate and use society’s resources in such a way that everyone – including the millions who are poor due to unemployment – is able to meet basic needs and live a life of dignity.
