Posted on 07/03/2010 8:02:07 AM PDT by george76
SA's adult employment rate is less than that of every other African economy...
This was despite SA being considered a much wealthier country with a more advanced economy. The employment ratio of adults in SA was only 41,4% compared with a ratio of 83% in Uganda, 80% in Rwanda and 78% in Tanzania and Malawi.
the number of people choosing not to participate in the economy grew by almost 25%...
Schüssler said employment policies and laws had to change before cultural shifts occurred in the mind-sets of people who had given up on job-seeking.
He said a major cause of SA's poor employment rate could be that more South Africans received money from welfare than from employment.
Mr Schüssler said 12,8-million people had been working, and not always for money, while 13,8-million people had received welfare payments from the proceeds of only 5-million taxpayers.
(Excerpt) Read more at allafrica.com ...
It is probable that those who are not working are nevertheless active on the money-making front. What they are up to may not be the sort of thing you would want to encourage, however.
The people of SA would rather steal and kill for what they want. Simple as that. This attitude is in many of our largest cities. Just look at the ghettos.
....’fine’ African tradition at work...
You’re confusing “employment rate” with “unemployment rate.” Roughly 40% of South Africans are working, while around 80% are working in the other countries mentioned.
The place is a rathole, but the libs consider it a model.
The title is deliberately written to create that confusion/false impression.
JMHO...
South Africa also has millions from Zimbabwe and surrounding countries. This adds millions of workers in an economy that does not have millions more jobs.
DOH!!! THanks for pointing that out. Those Leftists are so sneaky!
That’s possible.
To be classified as unemployed, you actually have to be looking for work.
They are sucking the wealth out of the former society. The same thing is happening in Rhodesia and now the United States.
This has to do with the United States and other 1st world countries granting China MFN status in the late 1990’s.
Entire manufacturing industries and large swathes of the manufacturing economy have been eliminated in South Africa due to the wage differential between South Africa (and Africa in general), and the sweatshop slave labor in Mainland China.
On top of that, do-gooder Westerners have inundated southern Africa with subsidized or donated goods, and headhunted much of the competent professional labor pool, causing a collapse in the continental clothing industry, and a severe lack of professionals capable of building industrial bases.
Additionally, South Africa has done a piss poor job controlling their border and the illegal immigrant migrant labor population, which numbers are now quite frankly huge.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.