How to Fix South Africa

What will it take to fix South Africa? This is the probing question concerned South Africans everywhere ask. While most South Africans have varying opinions about what the country needs, many will agree that unemployment, especially that of the youth, is chronic, and one of our most critical issues. Many also agree that jobs are not expected to be forthcoming from traditional sources of employment and that a more innovative approach has to be adopted.

The Sunday Times, in its bid to highlight this issue and seek positive solutions, posed this question to a number of leading thinkers and opinion-makers in the country. Their responses appeared as part of the “Each One Hire One” series of articles published in The Sunday Times early in 2012. These well considered, thought-provoking articles were contributed by, amongst others, key figures in politics, mining, banking and social development and have now been published in this volume.

Author Information:
Ray Hartley began his journalism career as a boxing writer for the Weekly Mail (Mail & Guardian). Ray worked briefly at Business Day before joining The Sunday Times as Political Reporter in 1993 and covered Nelson Mandela’s presidency as the newspaper’s political correspondent based in Parliament. He was The Sunday Times’ Cape Town Bureau Chief, Political Editor, Managing Editor and Deputy Editor before becoming the launch Editor of The Times, The Sunday Times’ daily newspaper in 2007. He is currently an Editor at large at Times Media.

“Let us choose to work together, support each other, and create synergies ammg us so we can each make our humble contribution to a better and proud South Africa.” Pravin Gordhan