South Africa's unemployment crisis is urgent. How can industrial policy, skills development, and technology create more job opportunities? Join the #SATIED & Econ3x3 dialogue with SARChI Industrial Development at University of Johannesburg! Register: go.unu.edu/H54uB

A changing economy demands new skills for workers & supportive policies for businesses. Join the #SATIED and Econ3x3 dialogue on aligning labor market reforms with industrial strategy for a more inclusive workforce Register: go.unu.edu/H54uB SARChI Industrial Development University of Johannesburg

The stage is set for today’s policy dialogue on Employment Policy, Technology, and South Africa’s Future of Work — co-hosted #SATIED Econ3x3 & SARChI Industrial Development 🔹 Inclusive job creation 🔹 AI & automation 🔹 Labour market reforms 🔹 Industrial policy 📹go.unu.edu/uFxso

🚀 Final Day of 🇿🇦 South Africa at 30 📜 Murray Leibbrandt opened the plenary with Trevor Manuel , Andrew Dabelen & Iqbal Dhaliwal on SA’s future. 💡 By 2054, SA must shift to a diversified, knowledge-based economy: tech, renewables & advanced manufacturing.

📢 Internship Opportunity! Are you a student with an interest in the UN or international development? Join us in Helsinki for a 6-month internship in #Research, #Partnerships, or #WebManagement. Apply by 31 May! 🔗 go.unu.edu/1xME1

📢 Big news for inequality researchers & policy-makers! UNU-WIDER has just released a major update to the World Income Inequality Database (WIID) — the most comprehensive source of global income inequality data. wider.unu.edu/news/unu-wider… 🧵👇

How have the returns to education evolved during the post-Apartheid era in South Africa?🇿🇦 Read all about it in a new short Econ3x3 blog below, summarizing a 2024 RESEPgroup paper of mine referenced in the next Tweet! 🔗: econ3x3.org/article/how-ha…

⁦Haroon Bhorat⁩ of ⁦Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)⁩ on unemployment and the informal sector. Crucially, while SA has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world, it also has one of the smallest informal sectors. businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/202…

HAROON BHORAT (Haroon Bhorat, our colleague at Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)): Getting the numbers right on the informal economy businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/202…

We’re excited to share that Dr Ujithra Ponniah will be speaking at Rhodes University’s event on Interrogating Inequality in Post-1994 South Africa. Her talk, “Studying Up: Inequality Perspectives from the Global South” Don’t miss this important conversation. #Inequality

What drives the #genderpaygap? In South Africa, write Ihsaan and Leila Gautham , the "usual suspects" - occupation, hours, experience - apply. "But a powerful, often overlooked reason is simply this: where women work." econ3x3.org/article/why-ar… Murray Leibbrandt SALDRU

Half SA's coal-fired power plants are scheduled to close by 2040, writes Nicky. Employment solutions for those reliant on coal are urgent. Can closed and abandoned mines be turned into assets rather than liabilities? econ3x3.org/article/just-e… SALDRU Murray Leibbrandt

Between 2008 and 2023 graduate unemployment went from 5.8% to 11.8%. While concerning, this is still much lower than the rate for individuals with lower levels of education - Econ3x3 econ3x3.org/article/degree…

📚✨ Last week, in collaboration with DPRU at UCT, we launched "Political Economy and Critical Engagement in South Africa: Essays in Honour of Vishnu Padayachee" in Cape Town. The book honours Prof Vishnu Padayachee’s remarkable contributions to political economy and critical

SCIS Seminar | This Week: Join us for this week’s SCIS Seminar with Dr Chido Muzanenhamo (Wits School of Architecture & Planning) as she explores Double Borderland Identities: A Case Study of Musina Municipality. 🗓 23 Oct | 12h30–14h00 📍 Hybrid 🔗 Register:

SOUTH AFRICA EXPORTED 60,186 TONNES OF MAIZE LAST WEEK (November 7, 2025). With approximately 54% going to Zimbabwe, 22% to Mozambique, and the remainder to other countries in the Southern African region. This placed South Africa's 2025-26 maize exports at 958,077 tonnes, out

🚨New Working Paper!🚨 Ihsaan & I start with simple stylised fact: lower productivity firms pay ~minimum wage, even as productivity increases. What does this mean for rent sharing/passthrough? Employment? Profits? Monopsony model + 🇿🇦 admin data = striking conclusions!