Yesterday, Stats SA published its latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the first quarter of 2019, showing that the country’s unemployment rate has risen in the first three months of the year. The unemployment rate rose to a near 15-year high, with the labour force survey revealing that the unemployment rate jumped 0.5 percentage points to 27.6% in the first quarter of 2019 – meaning, the economy lost 237,000 jobs during the first quarter of this year. Analysts say that this highlights the enormous task that president Ramaphosa is faced with in reversing the unemployment rate. What direction do we need to create to avoid seeing such numbers and to get more people participating in the economy? What could have led to this and can we recover? After how long?

guest: Michael Bagraims - Labour attorney AND DA Shadow Minister of Labour