Unemployment in South Africa
This paper is an extension of work undertaken by the present writer in 1983 on "The Growth and Structure of Manufacturing Employment in Natal". That study revealed inter alia a declining rate of growth of manufacturing employment in the country as a whole and in particular in the major industrial areas, including the Durban-Pinetown region. It was therefore decided to focus directly on the problem of unemployment, initially dealing with the question of scale and definition, causes, certain other conceptual issues, and remedies, in relation to the country as a whole, with a view to using it as a background to subsequent analysis focussing more particularly on the problem of unemployment in the Natal region. The present study deals with the problem at the national level, and it is hoped that a further analysis dealing with Natal will be undertaken at the Institute in due course.....