More than one in four South Africans can't find work. In survey after survey, people rank this as the country's biggest problem. Here is our in-depth series on unemployment.
This series will consist of about a dozen articles published during mid- to late-February 2019.
We are taking an in-depth look at the issue South Africans are most concerned about
By Aidan Jones
Feature | 12 February 2019
Quarterly survey says 27.1% of the labour force is out of work. A year ago it was 26.7%
By Aidan Jones
Brief | 12 February 2019
“There are so many people in our community who are unemployed yet we still see rubbish lying around”
By Zoë Postman
News | 13 February 2019
Manufacturing — a vital industrial sector — has shed 300,000 jobs
News | 13 February 2019
“The gold is right here in the soil”
Feature | 14 February 2019
If people are not willing to invest in a country, it is almost impossible to generate new jobs, writes Professor Vimal Ranchhod
Opinion | 14 February 2019
Khumbuzile Phakamile survives by selling empties to shebeens and trying to find gardening jobs that pay a pittance
News | 14 February 2019
Business should inform curricula to prepare South Africa for the fourth industrial revolution, writes Business Unity SA CEO Tanya Cohen
By Tanya Cohen
Opinion | 15 February 2019
“I may not be employed but I will never let my children and me starve.”
News | 15 February 2019