A lot of mining companies have completely abdicated their responsibility here by abandoning Gold Dumps and neglecting these yellow skyscrapers (tailing) all across former Gold Mining towns.
In this week's @FinancialMail:
*How crime, zama zamas and extortion are killing SA mining
*Joburg residents left in the dark
*Pointless shuffles on the Eskom Titanic
*Truworths' game of thrones: Who will win out?
Read these and more, get your copy in stores and online tomorrow!
The SARB released its September 2022 Quarterly Bulletin (QB) today. The QB provides a thorough overview of domestic economic developments in the second quarter of 2022 and includes a comprehensive set of macroeconomic statistical tables. Read here: https://t.co/VGstoTZ7Xt
The MPC decided to increase the repurchase rate by 75 basis points to 6.25% per year, with effect from the 23rd of September 2022. Three members
of the Committee preferred the announced increase. Two members preferred a 100
basis points increase.
Job Guarantees would work better than BIG. This push towards a larger social net is dangerous and unsustainable. It serves political expedience and does nothing for the long term economic interests of the country.
Masters are those who by nature have suffered to get to where they are. They have experienced endless criticisms of their work, doubts about their progress, and setbacks along the way.
Far from being laboratories of democracy, American states are now Petri dishes of polarisation. Our latest cover story explains why only electoral reform can make them work properly https://t.co/O5KkQQjRUj
The mind must not wander from goal to goal, or be distracted by success from its sense of purpose and proportion. What is concentrated, coherent, and connected to its past has power.
Black African and Coloured population groups remain vulnerable in the labour market.
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Black African women are the most vulnerable with an #unemployment rate of 39,3% in Q2:2022. This is 3,8 percentage points higher than the national average for women at 35,5%.
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The #unemployment rate among the Black African (37,8%) population group remains higher than the national average and other population groups.
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Approximately 3,7 million (35,7%) out of 10,2 million young people aged 15-24 years were not in #employment, #education or #training (NEET). The overall NEET rate increased by 2,7 percentage points in Q2:2022 compared to Q2:2021.
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Youth aged 15-24 years and 25-34 years recorded the highest #unemployment rates of 61,4% and 41,2% respectively.
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Graduate #unemployment rate (10.2%) is 23,7 percentage points lower than the national official unemployment rate.
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Employment increased by 648 000 in Q2:2022 compared to Q1:2022. Increases in #employment were mainly in Community and social services, Trade, #Finance and #Construction.
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