Neva Makgetla’s most recent column was difficult to comprehend (“Jobs growth is there, but not enough to fix apartheid ills (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2019-08-06-neva-makgetla-jobs-are-being-created-but-not-fast-enough-to-remove-apartheid-era-backlogs/)”, August 6).
She blames the high levels of unemployment on “joblessness from the 1980s … rooted in SA’s peculiar history. Apartheid laws generated employment for large-scale farming and mining by shutting down alternatives for black people.”..
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