Shimza: Government Policy Is Not The Threat Behind People Losing Jobs & Explains The “Real” Reason
Shimza: “Government Policy Is Not The Threat Behind People Losing Jobs & Explains The Real Reason – South Africa has been in shambles ever since the Unemployment statistics were released.
It raises a concern, especially to the youth on the future of the country and its progression.
DJ Shimza weighed in on a discussion circulating the subject, asserting that technology is the primary menace to people getting retrenched.
The satellite network asserted that, although billions of rand in returns were reported for the 2018/2019 financial year, client, customer etiquette and data on their digital self-service reveals that there is a lower rank of a requirement for numerous call centre and walk-in centre agents on their roster.
These are indeed detrimental news that heavily affects South Africa’s economy, whose GDP retracted by more than 3% in the first half of the year.
Unemployment has already soared to 27.5%, not to mention 50% of the youth is resting in the absence of permanent employment. Ramaphosa reported in his State of the Nation address (SONA 2019) pledged to distribute a pragmatic alternative to eradicate unemployment — 200 000 jobs per year until 2029.
Now, A Quarterly Labour Force Survey emancipated by Statistics South Africa on Tuesday discovered that the unemployment rate elevated from 27,6% in the first quarter of 2019 to 29% in the second quarter.
This report was alarming across South Africa and ignited debate online concerning employment.
So, DJ Shimza, ushered to Twitter this week, on the 31st of July 2919 to share his perspective on unemployment in the country.
He alerted that the substantial hazard was not the government but technology advancement that alters the way people operate on a daily base and result in certain occupation outdated.
The DJ has concurred with the outlook that the economy was facing difficulty and asserted a larger contribution was that “factories would rather have programmed machinery to do the job that a human would ordinarily do.”
The prominent House DJ explained that the government has previously stimulated the multitudes to begin contemplating the influence of technology on the future prospectives since the fight of unemployment has to be a partnership.
Written by: Aphiwe Theodorah Mvinjelwa
