Grant payment delays spell financial crisis for the most vulnerable
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A round-up of news updates, including a look at South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ.
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[TOP STORY] Wage inflation versus productivity: A growing threat to employment
‘You can pay R30 000 for a bot rather than R300 000 for a labour relations officer. The labour markets are under pressure, I think we're going to see unemployment grow significantly,’ says John Botha, joint CEO at Global Business Solutions.
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[TOP STORY] Steenhuisen’s exit exposes a deeper crisis inside the DA
‘There’s a conservative group that feels the party has left the runway and veered into another direction. In a sense, they’re trying to pull it back to its basics,’ says Sanusha Naidu, writer and commentator at the Institute for Global Dialogue.
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[TOP STORY] Eskom unbundling faces fresh hurdles as energy reform drags on
‘We don’t want a fiscal risk to the sovereign because we didn’t do this properly. That risk is real; Eskom is just coming out of a debt moratorium,’ says Rudi Dicks, head of the Project Management Office in the Presidency.