In its ‘Economic Survey of South Africa 2013’, presented to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan yesterday (4th March), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) emphasised that boosting the country's "dismally low" employment should form the hallmark of all South Africa's policies. It pointed out that our very unsatisfactory educational outcomes aggravate the oversupply of unskilled labour and worsen the income inequality.
That there are problems with our educational system is not news to us, of course. It is a subject in the National Development Plan, the President's State of the Nation address and we are familiar with news stories like the late delivery of textbooks. [Readers who are interested in what is happening in skills development should take a look at our sister publication and website at www.skillshandbook.co.za].
The OECD survey deals with other aspects too and the reader will find the survey on www.oecd.org.
Job creation is a new chapter in the Agri Handbook for South Africa, appropriately situated in the "National issues" section. Like everything else, agriculture has a context, finding itself uncomfortably affected by processes which we would love to wish away.
Find the job creation chapter here.
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