Elsewhere in South Africa, grubby politicians gobble up the public loot — and the future.
On the face of it, the unemployment numbers released this week were probably better than expected, given how rolling blackouts have ravaged the country.
But of the 169,000 jobs created in the last quarter of 2022, the DA was quick to point out that 167,000 were in the Western Cape. Sadly, economists don’t predict many gleaming lights at the end of the unemployment tunnel any time soon. As Nedbank’s economists put it, “m
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