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There can be no doubt that our massive unemployment, and particularly the fact that more than 70% of our young people are unemployed, is South Africa’s key long-term challenge and threat. However, there are few signs that the government is breaking much sweat in trying to solve this existenti...

But it fiercely defended its independence.

The governor of the Reserve Bank asks what role a state bank would play in a country where more than 80% of the population has access to financial services

The most tragic feature of SA’s youth unemployment crisis is that even though the labour market continues to deteriorate, disadvantaged young people remain positive about their future

Centre for Development and Enterprise’s Ann Bernstein criticised the decision to move veteran Minister Lindiwe Sisulu from human settlements, water and sanitation to tourism.

Ann Bernstein is head of the Centre for Development and Enterprise. A constant theme in economic policy reviews over the past two decades has been that South Africa’s growth prospects are constrained by skills shortages. This has two implications: we need to improve our education and skills systems, and we should be far more open to skilled migration. The 2017 White Paper on Migration frankly acknowledged that “the economy is desperately short of skills” and that “South Africa has not p...

It is hard to understand why South Africa, a country with a massive skills shortage, wastes money and time trying to work out what highly specific skills to let in. An abundance of skills is vital for innovation, economic growth and job creation. The more skills an economy can access, the bigger and more resilient it will be.

What if South Africa had a special economic zone that was actually special? Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the & symbol, click Advanced Search and use the search headings and/or in first paragraph options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by 1.41 MB Sponsored by A new report by the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) has c...

Martin Wolf in conversation with Ann Bernstein Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the & symbol, click Advanced Search and use the search headings and/or in first paragraph options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by 0.40 MB Ann Bernstein sat down with Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. Wolf has been des...

Letter: Mass taking of land may well lead to custodianship - Businesslive 29 April 2021 - Ann Bernstein of the Centre for Development and Enterprise disputes the validity of the concerns the Institute of Race Relations has raised regarding the Expropriation Bill and the prospects of a custodial taking of land (“Custodianship of land is not on the table”, April 25). We welcome the engagement. Ann Bernstein of the Centre for Development and Enterprise disputes the validity of the concerns the...