SA tired of ‘vote for jobs’ lure

Parties across the political spectrum are leaning heavily on the lure of jobs to secure votes, but experts warned it was easy to promise, difficult to deliver.

University of KwaZulu-Natal economics professor Dr Harold Ngalawa said it was “quite easy” to sell the idea that you will create jobs but the issue is, at what rate?

“The process of job creation and job destruction is continuous. But if more jobs are being destroyed than being created, unemployment will accelerate.”