num_pages: 256
description: The overwhelming challenge that South Africa faces and has to date failed to address is unemployment which falls especially on African youths who were promised a better future after 1994. If the current unemployment challenge is not addressed it will be impossible to sustainably lift many millions of people out of poverty. How South Africa Works reviews the country's major economic achievements over the past two decades. Through numerous interviews with politicians business leaders and analysts it examines the challenges and opportunities across key productive sectors -- including agriculture manufacturing services and mining -- illustrative of the policy challenges that leaders face. It scrutinises the social grant and education systems to understand if South Africa has established mechanisms for people not only to escape destitution but be ready to be employed and identifies steps that some of South Africa's most notable entrepreneurs have taken to build world-class enterprises. Recognizing the essential challenge to cultivate more employers to employ people How South Africa Works concludes by offering an agenda and active steps for greater competitiveness for government business and labor.
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title: How South Africa Works: And Must Do Better
publisher: Hurst & Co.