Catastrophic unemployment statistics a manmade disaster by ruling party - Requires urgent change to avoid catastrophe
20 February 2024
The disastrous fourth quarter unemployment statistics - which show that 11.6 million South Africans are now unemployed according to the expanded definition - indicate that unless South Africans change their national government in the upcoming elections, the country will further go down a path of unemployment and economic decline. Regardless of what Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana therefore presents in his budget speech on Wednesday, unless drastic action is taken, South Africa will never be able to get out of its low economic growth environment.
Despite repeated promises by the ruling government - including most recently by President Cyril Ramaphosa during his State Of The Nation Address - that South Africa is turning the tide against job losses, the Quarterly Labour Force Survey shows that the current policy approach is simply not working. The upcoming elections therefore present an opportunity to reset South Africa’s economic approach by removing the ruling party to create millions of new jobs to improve our people’s lives.
South Africa’s current unemployment and fiscal crisis is a manmade disaster by the ruling party after years of mismanagement and corruption, but ActionSA has a plan to address the country’s current dilemma by unlocking private investment and job creation. Our economic prosperity policy, adopted by 600 delegates during ActionSA’s inaugural policy conference in September, stipulates that when we enter government, we will grow the economy and create jobs by:
Reforming the labour market to make it easier for businesses to hire new employees.