33.6% Unemployment: How Did South Africa Get Here?

South Africa's unemployment crisis has reached another devastating milestone — 33.6%, with millions of South Africans out of work and youth unemployment climbing to 47.5%.

On this episode of This Is Politics, Justice Malala and Mondli Makhanya ask the uncomfortable question: why is South Africa failing to create jobs?

Is the problem economic policy? Slow growth? Red tape? The ANC's ideological baggage? Or has South Africa's political leadership simply run out of ideas?

The conversation then takes an even darker turn.

Justice and Mondli examine the killing of Hawks investigator Lieutenant Colonel Franz Matipa, the allegations surrounding an elite SANDF unit, the growing number of political assassinations in South Africa, and what these cases say about the state of the country's criminal justice system.

They also ask whether South Africa can afford to wait until the 2029 election before changing direction.

With unemployment, political leadership, crime, corruption and the future of South Africa all on the table, this is a conversation about a country facing some very serious consequences.

This Is Politics — South Africa's biggest political conversations, unpacked.

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