The African Christian Democratic Party calls for the immediate lifting of the lockdown restrictions on all sectors of the South African economy, while ensuring that strict hygiene conditions are in place, the party deputy president Wayne Thring says in a press statement released yesterday. The statement continues: The ACDP is […]
Tag: unemployment
Errol Naidoo urges South Africans to get behind ‘Revive SA — Buy SA’ campaign
Nichelle Steyn spoke to Errol Naidoo about his recent call to South Africans to contribute to South Africa’s economic revival by “buying SA”. Errol Naidoo, chief executive officer of the Family Policy Institute (FPI) is concerned about the viability of the local economy, especially family-owned and run small businesses. Subsequently, […]
Churches hosting Nelson Mandela Bay unemployment and poverty workshop
Anybody interested in tackling the problem of unemployment and poverty in Nelson Mandela Bay is invited to attend a workshop at the South End Museum, Port Elizabeth on Thursday May 17. Organised by the Ikhala Trust and the NM Bay Church Leaders, the gathering is a follow-up to the inaugural unemployment […]
SA sitting on powder keg of hopelessness — Bishop of Johannesburg
Originally published in Anglican Communion News Service The Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, the Right Revd Dr Steve Moreo, has warned that the high levels of poverty in South Africa pose a great danger to the country. “This country is sitting on a powder keg of hopelessness,” he said, citing the figures […]
Life Skills trainees who persevere find new hope and jobs
“I had given up hope a long time ago on finding a job when I received the phone call letting me know about the Life Skills training. I had nothing coming in except the social grant for my 3-year-old son, so I had begun to sell fish in the community […]
On SA: Unemployment and our hearts
[notice]In this guest column, Johannesburg engineer and blogger Niel Knoblauch says that an identity crisis is at the heart of greed and hopelessness that is gripping many people as our nation faces tough times.[/notice] After a year of not really thinking too much about it, the current state of South […]
Creative responses needed to problems of unemployment, cheap imports
[notice] Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Organisation researcher, Mayibuye Magwaza, raises some ethical and practical considerations that arise as businesses and unions grapple with the challenges posed by unemployment and the influx of cheap goods from China.[/notice] A recent report in Business Day indicates that a clothing company, Peter Blond and Associates, has […]