According to Haroon Bhorat, a labour market economist at UCT, in 1970 the number of African people in formal employment was 5.3 million. This number increased in the 1970s and early 1980s but by 1995, ...

Haroon Bhorat echoes the long-standing call put out by the DA that our national government is stifling business (“ Getting the numbers right on the informal economy ”, June 17).

LAEL BETHLEHEM: Red tape nation Regulations must protect the public, but not stifle dynamism ...

Every study in South Africa finds that real wage increases reduce the demand for labour (see studies by Conradie, Murray and van Walbeek, Bhorat, Kanbur and Mayet, Bhorat, Kanbur and Stanwix, Pauw and ...