8 responses to “Looking for work?”

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   Andre

   13 years Ago

   Wow, thought it was closer to 15%.This means of the 642000 matrics writing exams now, 160500 will be sitting on the street sooner than later.As a clever Jonathan Jansen said”..that’s where the problems start for all hardworking business-minded citizens..”.Now this 160k must find food and support themselves somehow.And to be honest,if you are starving,it comes down to survival of the fittest.You will kill,rape and mame to survive and the victims will be some poor,easy target like a 65yr old pensioner,that worked her whole life, to get robbed of it when she finally retires.Catch the innuendo?

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   Anton

   13 years Ago

   This problem is systemic. We also have the lowest business startup rate. We can be solve it by:
   1)Restoring the balance of power between employer and employee. No one here wants to be an employer, it is too tough. 2)Change the message from “get a job” to “start a business”. 3) Make it a lot easier to start businesses and give good tax breaks for people who do, ESPECIALLY people who start 2nd and 3rd businesses, who are currently completely excluded from the small business tax breaks. 4) Model the USA on their bankruptcy laws, which makes starting a business safer.

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   fiyin

   13 years Ago

   Ordinary South Africans have to see it as a problem that affects them. Think of ways to create employment. One person employed means one family has a chance at a better life and less burden on the state. We all need to chip in-government cannot do this by themselves.

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   DAVID DICKENS

   13 years Ago

   The challenge lies with Balance, yes of employee and employer. However our landscape is controlled by a few Dominant business players, BlueChip and internationals, that own 90% of the wealth and manage aprox 90% of work force. These people sit on many boards and are driven by pure profit. Case in point, Standard Bank – Unfortunatley they just are top of mind, the investors place profit above the current South African employment situation. In a country that allows Standard bank to tap into the educated people (state educated), use safe infrastructure (we all pay to maintain) to operate, add insult to injury by laying off 2 000 more South Africans to add to the 25% unemployment rate. Boards need to re-evaluate why businesses exist and the greater effects of personal greed has on the people at ground level. We can strike a balance, we need a paradigm shift with true human intention, we injur the whole country, by trying to stay in Forbes top 100 (at any cost – especially human capital)

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   Grimalkin

   13 years Ago

   I’m surprised this is SO LOW. Taking into account the millions of illegal immigrants, the figure is surely much higher. Meantime, COSATU talks of making labour laws stricter, quite oblivious to the fact that people are overly cautious about employing people because it’s so difficult to fire them for theft, drunkenness, poor performance etc. This is just a small drop in a huge ocean: I have employed two domestic workers over the past five years, both have stolen from me, both knowing that it’s ‘my word against theirs’ and they cannot be fired. I retrenched both. An expensive exercise. This scenario is playing out all over the country, right up to major corporations. Ease up on labour law and watch jobs flourish. Tighten up and watch people make alternative plans! (I do my own housework!)

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   Veez

   13 years Ago

   ….and SA wants to join the BRIC countries.??

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7. 

   Renee

   13 years Ago

   There are many opportunities, but we need a mouthpiece to make them known to all the unemployed/jobseekers. Using what I have at my disposal as a graphic designer, I started a small newspaper called Nucitizen, which is availabe to licensees who pay on R100 (yup) to download the issue per month. It is ready for use, SA positive content and pics in place, nice branding, with all the adspaces vacant and in place. Licensees source advertisers in their region, and make on average R6000 profit on completion. Activation documents and unlimited mentoring and support is part of the deal. If you think I have a good idea here, please have a look (link was no longer valid and was removed). Perhaps you have ideas how to get the opportunity out there. (school leavers, unemployed, youth entrepreneurs, etc)
   regards,
   Renee
   Email: renee@rdesigns.co.za

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8. 

   Terry Roe

   13 years Ago

   There is no end to the opinions and theories that can be bandied about regarding the high unemployment figures in South Africa, but, surely it would be a lot more useful exercise if our figures were to be compared with the rest of the recognized productive countries of Africa, to be able to assess just how well we are really performing as an African Nation. If perchance we are rated as being satisfactory based on African standards, then what more do we honestly expect to achieve under present non-caring attitudes of Government towards the people and the resultant total lack of respect from the people towards the Government: with neither of either being even close to being what could be called energetic producers of any of the very necessary goods.

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