Job creation - plans are unsustainable

The Mail & Guardian report quotes researcher Lucy Holborn, who says that the increase in public sector employment is not a sustainable solution to South Africa's unemployment problems.

Meanwhile, the Sowetan reports that President Jacob Zuma conceded that the government has failed to create jobs despite its promises to do so. He blamed the global financial crisis for the lack of job creation in South Africa.

For more:

• Mail & Guardian: Government can't continue driving job growth
  
• Sowetan: Zuma on jobs: we've failed