‘South Africans mustn’t fear losing jobs to robots’

‘South Africans mustn’t fear losing jobs to robots’

Blue Prism Country Manager, Greg Newton by SAVIOUS KWINIKA
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – A TECHNOLOGY executive has allayed fears the advent of digitalisation would worsen rampant unemployment in South Africa.

Instead, technology will drive new jobs in Africa’s most diversified economy, according to Greg Newton, country manager at Blue Prism.
His sentiments come as South Africa’s unemployment rates in the first quarter of 2021 hit a record high of 32,6 percent. The rate is at 46,3 percent among people aged 15 to 34 years old.Unemployment is blamed for the restlessness besetting the country. Tempers flared in July as some shopping […]

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