It is not limited to work-seekers, but is meant to be work, including the costs of available to all below the specified level of income, regardless seeking work relative to the of their employment or work-seeking status, and includes caregivers. [...] A large percentage of applicants and beneficiaries, value of the grant, and the lack despite seeking-work, are unable to secure it, because of of available work opportunities the realities of deep structural unemployment in the South African labour market. [...] seeking amongst recipients, 53% of those who applied for the These statistics underscore a grim reality: the South African SRD grant in July 2024 have never been employed, according economy is simply not creating enough jobs to match the to government figures.10 annual increases in the labour supply, let alone the existing In South Africa, unemployment is not a result of people pool of the unemplo. [...] Indeed, if this is the case, for work-seeking conditions, and the termination of the SRD work-seeking conditions can significantly exacerbate inequalities grant also seem to be motivated by a desire to radically reduce between those who have ‘easier’ access to the labour market, the number of social assistance beneficiaries31—thereby cutting and those who do not. [...] These are people who are not employed during the IEJ RESPONSE: reference period but wanted to work or were available to work/start a business but did not take active steps to find • The primary barrier to employment in South work with the main reason given for not seeking work being Africa is a shortage of available jobs and the any of the following: no jobs available in the area; unable to high c.
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