Eastern Cape’s 50% unemployment mountain

Oscar Mabuyane has a mountain to climb, if he wants to turn around the fortunes of the Eastern Cape. Facing the Stats SA release of a shocking 50% or higher unemployment rate for the province, the premier used his state of the province address on Tuesday to urge residents to look beyond the coronavirus crisis and focus on the reconstruction and recovery of the ailing provincial economy, He said the Covid-19 death toll and infection rate was subsiding — as evidenced by fewer infections, ...