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Jobs crisis requires urgent, principled action

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July 05, 2025

SOUTH Africa is haemorrhaging jobs at a rate that the economy can no longer bear.

The loss of 74 000 formal sector jobs in the first quarter of 2025 and 95 000 year-on-year marks not just an economic contraction, but the deepening of a social crisis that threatens national stability.

This scale of unemployment is not merely unsustainable; it is potentially explosive.

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