Crime has become an alternative form of employment: Kieswetter

Home | Crime has become an alternative form of employment: Kieswetter South African Revenue Service (SARS) Commissioner Edward Kieswetter says the country must change the way it spends its money. He says crime has become an alternative source of employment, because government lacks the capacity to create jobs . Kieswetter was speaking at the annual Inclusive Growth Forum that the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation hosted in Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal.

He says social grants are being used as a buffer for government’s failure to create jobs. “It’s unsustainable because if it weren’t for those grants, those 26-million people would be destitute. The sad reality in South Africa is that crime is more organised and better resourced than formal business.



And crime has become an alternative form of employment. And so we have to do something that’s more compelling and we haven’t,” laments Kieswetter. SABC © 2024.