South Africa is helping young people become ready for work. But what happens when the economy has no work to offer them?
A year of workplace experience can change a young person’s life. Returning to unemployment can expose the limits of that promise.
The updating and benchmarking of the gross domestic product (GDP) figures for South Africa provide more complete data for both public and private sector decision-makers, which are an essential tool for sound policymaking and business planning.
Although South Africa remains listed as an African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) beneficiary for now, the imminent deadline emphasised by the South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA (SACCUSA) has created uncertainty for business interests between the two countries.
The North-West University (NWU) chancellor, Dr Anna Mokgokong, has highlighted the potential of strategic partnerships between universities, traditional leadership, farmers and industry to strengthen agricultural production, create employment and connect local producers to commercial markets.
The chancellor of the North-West University (NWU) and professor of practice at the NWU Business School, Dr Anna Mokgokong, called for science, enterprise and partnership to convert rural potential into shared prosperity.
Prof. Raymond Parsons
The North-West University (NWU) continues to demonstrate how business education, innovation and entrepreneurial thinking can contribute to solving real-world challenges, with one of its students earning national recognition for turning mining waste into a potential resource for sustainable construction.
South Africa’s growing scrutiny of foreign academics may deliver quicker gains in representation while weakening the expertise needed to develop the country’s next generation of scholars.
The negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth figures of -0,2% for the second quarter of 2026 confirm the bad knock the South African economy – together with many other economies – took as a result of the recent global energy shock. StatsSA released the latest figures on 8 September.