LETTER: Jobs, what jobs?
Olympic level of cognitive dissonance and detachment with reality was displayed at 2019’s ANC manifesto launch.
Any objective observer would recognise the country is in an unprecedented jobs crisis. It is however truly commendable the Olympic level of cognitive dissonance and detachment with reality displayed at 2019’s ANC manifesto launch. President Cyril Ramaphosa in his address alludes to the joblessness crisis faced by the country, yet struggles to point to the root cause. And the cause for this crisis is the very party that was clinking champagne glasses and eating cake while nearly 10-million people, or 37.3%, remain unemployed. It wasn’t always 10-million. In 1994 the expanded unemployment was 3.67-million or 31.5%. Fast-forward to the start of the Zuma years, expanded unemployment was 6.68-million, or 31.7%, or and in 2014 8.43-million people or 35.8%. This all points to an ANC that is neither willing nor able to address the fundamental economic challenges the country faces. Each election cycle brings promises of massive job creation in the next term of government. By the ANC’s standa...
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