Submission on the National Minimum Wage Bill, 2017

The plan to introduce a National Minimum Wage in South Africa threatens to turn an already untenable unemployment situation into a total calamity. South Africa’s forgotten people, the 9.2 million unemployed, have endured a great deal but they must be reaching the limits of what they are capable of tolerating. Unrest is increasing and unemployment is the main source of the restlessness. Government’s laws and regulations are primarily responsible.

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