Dr Nik Eberl is the founder and executive chair: The Future of Jobs Summit™ (Official T20 Side Event). He is also the author of Nation of Champions: How South Africa won the World Cup of Destination Branding).
For more than fifteen years, South Africa has struggled to generate meaningful economic growth.
Since the global financial crisis, the economy has expanded at an average rate of less than 1% per year, far below the levels required to absorb new entrants into the labour market, attract investment and reduce unemployment.
During the same period, unemployment has risen to among the highest levels in the world, with more than 8 million South Africans actively seeking work.
Yet while much of the country has been focused on what is broken, something remarkable has been happening in unexpected places.
