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LUNCEDO MTWENTWE | The built-in hassle that’s holding South Africa back (opens the original)
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South Africans spend a great deal of time debating how to create more jobs, attract investment and grow small businesses. With unemployment at 33.6% and 8.5-million people out of work, productivity is understandably part of the conversation, but our problem is not a lack of willingness to work. The bigger problem is the environment in which that work happens. Productivity is not just about how hard someone works between 8am and 5pm. It also depends on the ecosystem far beyond the office, factory
LUNCEDO MTWENTWE | We need to bridge the provincial divide for SMEs (opens the original)
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The recent unemployment figures released by Stats SA are still playing on my mind. I wasn’t expecting the national rate of 33.6% to fall significantly, but I was surprised by the extraordinary disparity in unemployment rates between provinces. In the second quarter of 2026, unemployment in the Eastern Cape climbed to 47.5%, while the Western Cape recorded the lowest rate at 19.5%. This is a huge gap for two provinces in the same country. I grew up in the Eastern Cape and I know that local entrep
LUNCEDO MTWENTWE | South Africa can’t borrow its way to growth (opens the original)
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This past week, South Africa secured a $1.5bn (R25bn) development policy loan from the World Bank to support long-overdue reforms in the electricity, freight transport and water sectors. It has rightly been welcomed as a vote of confidence and a much-needed boost for infrastructure modernisation, but loans must be repaid, with interest, and when we are producing less and importing more, it becomes more difficult to borrow our way to prosperity. Instead, South Africa needs to focus on extracting
LUNCEDO MTWENTWE | The know-how vacuum that’s crippling towns and cities (opens the original)
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The National Treasury last week temporarily withheld billions of funds from 69 municipalities across South Africa including the cities of Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela Bay, Buffalo City and Mangaung. It’s an audacious step, and many are asking whether the Treasury has gone too far. Or not far enough. Rather than investigating the reasons behind the freeze, our attention should be focused on how these municipalities are run and why they continue, year after year, to be unable to manage the funds t
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