The outcry was swift when Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie dared to challenge South Africa’s sacred unemployment statistic. “The unemployment rate is probably actually 10%,” he contended, arguing that Stats SA’s headline figure of 32.9% ignores the vibrant informal economy where “everyone is doing something.” Critics were quick to dismiss him as ignorant, unscientific, even a… Continue reading The Statistical Mirage: Why Capitec’s CEO Is Forcing SA to Rethink Its Unemployment Narrative
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Biko’s Intellectual Finesse Left Apartheid-Era Justice Minister Jimmy Kruger Paralysed
September 12, 1977 holds profound lessons of struggle through a thinker, a struggle icon, a human philosopher and a realist who was brutally murdered forty-six years ago. It brings closer the privilege and the presence of mind of having been in the same space, four decades ago, of one who, when he learnt that Steve… Continue reading Biko’s Intellectual Finesse Left Apartheid-Era Justice Minister Jimmy Kruger Paralysed