EDITORIAL: Look at all the options to tackle the crisis of unemployment

Former Treasury deputy director-general Andrew Donaldson has called for government to scale up public employment programmes and to make them a permanent rather than a temporary part of the policy toolkit.

The government is spending R364bn a year on social grants, including R44bn this year on the SRD. It is spending a mere fraction of that on employment programmes. More robust debate is needed on what the government should be doing about SA’s unemployment crisis in the short and longer term. The government knows what it needs to do to make that happen — fix electricity and transport and implement other structural reforms. It has made a start but the pace is excruciatingly slow. And the reforms will take time to influence growth and jobs in any substantial way.

Public employment can play an important role too, especially if it is used to provide benefits that society needs — be it firefighting, street cleaning, home-based healthcare or helping to look after or educate children.

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