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110721tt 11 07 21 21 Jul 2011 The Times Dingbats an absurd workplace comic strip - - the unemploement situation in South Africa

Adcorp recently reported that 127,000 permanent positions were lost in South Africa during June, mainly in the unskilled and semi-skilled categories. This occurred at the same time as there was a 22% rise in high level and professional employment and a rise in unofficial employment.

To get the message across that no one is concerned about the unemployed, Zapiro bases his cartoon on the characters and style of Scott Adam's Dilbert comic strip. Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character.

Dingbats an absurd workplace comic strip

The Bosses We wont give in to workers greed
The workers Lets win public sympathy by trashing the city - Brilliant
The Unionists Our goals for July: Bring the economy to its knees and get another lotto million for our union bash

 

What about the unemployed? - Forget it you're not in the picture

http://dilbert.com/strips/

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st 20110721tt July The Times /Cartoons/m_110721tt.jpg 110721tt Adcorp this week said that 127,000 permanent positions were lost in SA during June, mainly in the unskilled and semi-skilled categories. This occurred at the same time as there was a 22% rise in high level and professional employment and a rise in unofficial employment. The bottom line is that the most likely people to be unemployed on a long-term basis are those with few or no skills, fallouts from the information age and the knowledge economy. A quick browse of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) website shows that the services sector accounts for a whopping 63.6% of global GDP compared with 30.7% for industry and a mere 5.7% for agriculture. It makes sense that the jobs are where the GDP dominates. On the surface, SA's employment complexion is quite simple. There are about 32.2 million people in the 15-64 age bracket, of whom about 17.3 million are considered to be eligible for the workforce. About 13.1 million are employed, but only about 9.2 million are formally employed in non-agricultural jobs. When it comes to the unemployed, Statistics SA reported a figure of 4.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, 68% of whom had been jobless for one year or longer. They also reported a figure of 2.1 million for discouraged work seekers who had given up looking for work. Cartoons The Times Year-2011 Year-2011-07

 
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