内容摘要："My parents really valued sport growing up, and that's quite rare in my community. My dad would have sold the house so that I could make an Olympics."

"My parents really valued sport growing up, and that's quite rare in my community. My dad would have sold the house so that I could make an Olympics."

A 2019 World Bank report identified insufficient skills as a key constraint holding back South Africa’s economic transition in the wake of apartheid.“There is an absence of work-readiness,” says Adrian Saville, economics professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science.

“A lot of people that are coming out of the education system and into the workforce simply don’t have the skills and also [lack] the acumen and the readiness to go into the workplace.”Like the one in Durban, the government has been running jobs fairs across the country for four years now.“We train them then pass them to the private sector to absorb them,” Minister Nxesi says.

But asked if the private sector had the capacity to absorb the kind of numbers of unemployed people South Africa has, he conceded that “to increase employment you need economic growth, and to have economic growth, you need investment”.This is really the crux of the matter.

Prof Saville argues that the absence of investment to drive economic growth is the biggest structural gap. The economic growth that has happened, he says, has come from government and consumer spending, “which are not productive sectors and do not create jobs”.

Persistent power problems have also seriously disrupted economic activity and increased operating costs for businesses.Prime Minister Luxon said: "We should have done better, and I am determined we will do so.

"To every person who took part, I say thank you for your exceptional strength, your incredible courage and your confronting honesty. Because of you, we know the truth about the abuse and trauma you have endured," he said, describing many of the stories as horrific and harrowing."I cannot take away your pain, but I can tell you this: you are heard and you are believed."

He added that it was too soon to reveal how much the government expected to pay victims in compensation. He said he would offer a formal apology on 12 November.Speaking to the BBC, Grant Robertson, a former deputy prime minister who was involved in commissioning the report, said it had been a "long time coming".