South Africa unemployment an issue
Feb14
Unemployment in South Africa is increasing worrying for the country’s citizens, as the much needed economy growth rate required to slash it has yet to be attained.
Tag President Jacob Zuma
Lessons Africa must learn from the World Cup
Beyond the tentacles of Paul the octopus who raised enthusiastic hopes with his preternatural accurate match predictions, the vuvuzela, and the razzle-dazzle in the land of the legendary Madiba, the recently concluded 2010 FIFA World Cup provides vital lessons for the continent. Pelé’s notable prediction that an African team would lift the World Cup trophy by the end of the last century did not come to pass.
South Africa: the Cup is over, bring on the Olympics
The first ever World Cup on African soil has now come to an end. South Africa says it is now ready to tackle an even bigger challenge: the first Olympics on African soil. South Africa’s port city of Durban has been punted by authorities there as a possibility for 2020.
SA: Football kicks off for hope
Johannesburg - Thirty-two soccer teams from across the world are battling it out in South Africa, but this time, the young boys and girls competing are not just in it for the trophy.
World Cup, ‘resource curse’ and xenophobia threats
Added to the raft of problems soccer-loving cynics have predicted will plague South Africa as a result of the World Cup is the threat of ‘another dose of xenophobia‘ from both state and society, writes Patrick Bond. Allowing immigrants to be blamed for crime and joblessness, says Bond, is a ‘scapegoat’ strategy for the government’s failure to address root causes of the social stress, from mass unemployment and housing shortages, to ‘South Africa’s regional geopolitical interests which create more refugees than prosperity.’
SA: The way to the “Common Good” is still a hard one
According to the common rules of political economy theories, South Africa should be even healthier than EU countries. But recent problems and the current situation in the country make South Africa look like it is still hostage of its colonialist past, writes Giulio Albanese.
