South Africa’s Unemployment Crisis: Why Job Creation Policies Keep Failing
Introduction South Africa’s unemployment rate remains alarmingly high, with youth unemployment exceeding 45%. Despite government programs like the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), YES Programme, and Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), job creation remains slow and unsustainable. What is going wrong, and how can South Africa fix it? The Root Causes of High Unemployment Skills Mismatch…