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Job creation hampered by tourism visa rules and Eskom SA`s unemployment rate has climbed to its highest level since 2008

Source: Business Day, 02/08/2019

SA is not able to create jobs due to stringent tourism visa rules and
unreliable electricity supply, a report following Cyril Ramaphosaâ€™s
job summit showed on Thursday, days after official data revealed that
the unemployment rate had climbed to its highest level since 2008.
At the summit in 2018, Ramaphosa pledged to create 100,000 new jobs,
a feat that looked impossible in an economy that has hardly grown
over the last decade and with power utility Eskom struggling to
shoulder a mountain of debt and keep the lights on.
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