A geography of the mesh showing unequal siphon among different regions in South Africa, which is causing stagnant economic growth and a failure of the social contract.
South Africa’s astronomical youth unemployment is calculated by design, not by accident, owing to the government’s repeated failure to use data to guide decision-making, solve problems, and reform policies to drive better economic growth.
This is according to former Statistician-General Dr Pali Lehohla. He was this week addressing an IEC seminar under the theme, “The Disappearing Labour Theory: Understanding Recent Voting Patterns in South Africa's Elections”.
The former Statistician-General presented various data showing the challenges collapsing the country, which he said have been presented to the country’s leaders in the last 30 years.
He said the biggest challenges can be seen in the Geography of the mesh, which is a spatial ‘mesh’ or grid-based framework that refers to small-area geographic units, used by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) to map and aggregate demographic data without distorting local.
