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This article was first published by The Conversation, and is based on a journal article which the writer co-authored with Jade Botha, an economics master's graduate at the University of the Western Cape. Read the article at rb.gy/oz9i0p.
“For more than three decades, the South African economy has had very high rates of joblessness. The country's economy has been unable to create enough jobs for its growing army of workers. This has partly been because of the stagnant economic growth rate of only 1,7% during the 2010s (it was even lower at 0,9% between 2015 and 2019).
Another factor that limited
