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33.6% Unemployment: How Did South Africa Get Here?
South Africa's unemployment crisis has reached another devastating milestone — 33.6%, with millions of South Africans out of work and youth unemployment climbing to 47.5%.
On this episode of This Is Politics, Justice Malala and Mondli Makhanya ask the uncomfortable question: why is South Africa failing to create jobs?
Is the problem economic policy? Slow growth? Red tape? The ANC's ideological baggage? Or has South Africa's political leadership simply run out of ideas?
The conversation then takes an even darker turn.
Justice and Mondli examine the killing of Hawks investigator Lieutenant…
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