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South Africa needs economic growth, not populism
We need to do away with rigid labour regulation and allow them to enter the market and work.
18 December 2025
We need to do away with rigid labour regulation and allow them to enter the market and work.
The FMF was featured in Politicsweb on labour law exemptions through a Job Seekers Exemption Certificate.
The national minimum wage and rigid hiring and dismissal rules have become weapons of exclusion.
Exempt the unemployed from the cause of their unemployment: labour laws.
Martin van Staden was featured in The Citizen on how over-regulation, high taxes, and excessive state intervention are crippling small businesses.
Other labour laws deepen the exclusion.
What they lack is permission to act freely in the labour market.
The Job Seekers Exemption Certificate is the simplest, most practical, and least costly means of enabling millions of unemployed South Africans to find work.
Zakhele Mthembu was featured in Daily Maverick on the FMF’s reaction to the latest unemployment statistics.
We have normalised a condition in which large swathes of people, who could be productive, are simply sitting at home doing nothing