PETER ATTARD MONTALTO: SA needs to look more deeply into its view of the informal sector
Part of the problem in determining unemployment in SA may lie in the interpretation of the informal sector
SA seemed to have forgotten that many things can hold true at once in the wake of comments in this newspaper by Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie (“Capitec CEO argues SA’s jobless rate as low as 10%” (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/economy/2025-06-10-capitec-ceo-argues-sas-jobless-rate-as-low-as-10/), June 10).
There can be an employment crisis, an income crisis and a poverty crisis all at the same time as the data not telling us the full reality — people getting monetary support from abroad and a complex range of sources, and seemingly tenuous and difficult-to-explain social stability in the face of such crises...
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