One of these graduates includes top medical student, Dr Maseeha Ismael Bhorat, who matriculated from Crawford College La Lucia in 2017. Currently, she is a medical intern at Groote Schuur Hospital.

This writer challenges the validity of South Africa's unemployment metrics by arguing that they fail to reflect the lived economic realities of the majority Black population, critiquing the methodolog ...

HAROON BHORAT: Getting the numbers right on the informal economy It is wrong to assume that what is true at the local level must translate to a 1:1 relationship at national level 17 June 2025 - 05:00 ...

This overlaps with a fairer response by UCT’s Haroon Bhorat, who appears to engage rather than dismiss Fourie’s assertions as hogwash. On the other hand, Lehohla dismisses Fourie’s 10% estimate, based ...

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).

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 ...