Statistics South Africa announced yesterday that South Africa's unemployment rate rose to 32.9% in the first quarter. At least 22,000 new jobs were created, but the unemployment rate rose because many more people who previously said they were no longer economically active started looking for work again. One sometimes wonders, can anything solve the unemployment problem? I asked GPT-4 to look at what the various political parties propose in their manifestos.

This episode is supported by Economic Research Southern Africa and the NWU Business School.