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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.
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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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