The South African unemployment crisis According to Stats SA ‘The official unemployment rate increased by 1.0 percentage point to 30.1% in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the fourth quarter of 2019, while the expanded unemployment rate increased by 1.0 percentage point to 39.7% in the same quarter compared to the fourth quarter of 2019’. Discuss the possible reasons for such a high rate of unemployment and the policy actions that the South African government can and should implement to abate the crisis.
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