The Job Seekers Exemption Certificate (JSEC) is a mechanism that could grant relief to people who have been unemployed for six months or more and cannot find jobs that pay minimum wage.
Removing the causes of mass youth unemployment in SA would have multiple positive consequences for jobseekers.
If electricity generation, transmission and distribution had been in private hands, with no barriers to entry preventing competitors from entering the market, this situation would not have arisen.
In the past South Africa had a chance to play a key role in the world’s markets but some of the incumbent politicians and sectors of the population are not showing the characteristics needed to build a winning country.
The existing ideological opposition to the transfer of monopoly government industries and services to private ownership is most unfortunate. If the process does not occur, or is delayed, South African consumers will be the poorer.
The steps taken must offer hope of economic betterment to the millions of South Africans who are jobless and unskilled. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a way in which this can be done.
