Unemployment In South Africa

The economy is a state of a country in terms of production and consumption and services in the supply of many. After twenty years of democracy, the acutest problem facing South Africa has left astray of sustainable economic growth and creation of jobs (Van de Berg,2006)these are essential in the country’s fight against poverty and improving the living conditions. In this essay, I'm going talk about unemployment in the South African Economy, how it has impacted South Africa throughout the years and how is currently us.

Barker (1999:165) define an unemployed person as the one who is without work or one who is currently available for work and seeking or wanting to work. The unemployment rate is defined as a number of percentage of unemployed individuals

The more people there are in a developing country such as South Africa, the higher the unemployment rate. When someone who is willing and able to work does not have a job and is also not self-employed, that person is said to be unemployed. Economic growth is usually merged with a number of people who are working.

Not all employment is equally desirable. Van Zyl et al (2015:54-55) states that “people employed informal sector sometimes engage in socially unacceptable activities such as burglary, prostitution or drug dealing. Most often though, the informal sector is made up of previously unemployed people who are now self-employed in socially acceptable ways to survive”. While these people are employed, their employment is often insecure and yield a very low

Lightly(1990;629-641) claims that the critical proportion of unemployment and mainly structural nature of the problem necessitated a re-evolution of policy measures in order to foster a pro-poor growth and development process in South Africa. The public sector expenditure programme is potent policy measure for stimulation of the employment growth in the economy. Menyiwa, et al (2014:158-159) president Zuma elevated rural development to a position among the top five strategic priorities of his administration and established a new ministry for rural development and Land Reform in 2009. The economy is also downgraded by political instability if we check how many we political parties we have here in South Africa which all have different views on how to run our country, basically focus on having solutions but rather they dwell on problems of which that is not taking us anywhere, The Nkandla, Gupta and our former president Jacob Zuma’s leadership took us down the drain, these issues affected us as the Rand against Dollar was weaken when coming to the Junk status which affected and some people lost their jobs. Mbanjwa.