AWAM MAVIMBELA | Youth unemployment as a tool of oppression

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19 March 2025 - 04:30 By AWAM MAVIMBELA

In the lead-up to the budget speech, finance minister Enoch Godongwana used unemployment as justification for increasing VAT, despite Sars commissioner Edward Kieswetter warning that this approach has never been effective in the past. He further threatened that if VAT were not raised, 19,000 teaching jobs would be lost...

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