Youth unemployment in SA

Now before the break, we had Thakira Desai’s feature for Freedom Day – she says South Africans might be free in one sense, but we are still economically shackled. South Africa’s stark unemployment figures, slow growth, growing debt amongst South Africans, extreme poverty – it all points a deep problem our country’s employment policies.
Now Trudy Makhaya, an economist wrote a good article on Business Day on the state of youth unemployment in the country at the moment, and she raises important issues such as policy. She joins us now…

Guest: Trudi Makhaya
Position: economist and a columnist for Business Day