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Justin Visagie, Associate Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa’s jobs crisis: what 10 years of tax data tells us

It’s time South Africa faced up to an honest question: what if the formal economy can’t deliver the jobs that are needed?

I am an economist who has been working closely with South Africa’s administrative tax data over the past five years – arguably the best way to track progress in the formal sector.

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