READ the next sentence slowly and carefully — pause, think about it, consider the emotional and material suffering endured by millions of innocent victims. SA has the world’s highest persistent unemployment rate, and most young people do not have, have never had, and are unlikely to ever get, a job.
That is all you need to know to realise SA’s labour policy is a cosmic catastrophe. Besides the emotional and psychological effect inflicted on destitute and desperate job seekers, the entire country, especially the poor, are denied the wealth unemployed people would have produced had they been allowed to sell their labour.
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