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Job Seekers Exemption Certificate answer to structural unemployment
JSEC is the best policy, grounded in the agency of every individual…
23 April 2026
JSEC is the best policy, grounded in the agency of every individual…
More than 28 million South Africans now receive some form of social grant.
Do not regulate the process, and do not promise that this will solve unemployment.
Others who have attempted to fix the mess in downtown Johannesburg have met a tragic end.
Jobs are not things that policy makers ‘create’. Jobs are the byproduct of increased economic production.
The obsession with disinformation has unfortunately taken root locally, and it could have serious implications for governance in the near future.
Despite all its programmes and claims of success, the state still has over 30% of its working population unemployed.
A possible solution is not to stop pushing for decentralisation, but rather to reframe the case for it by prioritising rent-seeking politics as the central justification.
While a balanced budget is to be welcomed, South African taxpayers are – like Atlas – still carrying the rest of the country on their shoulders.