内容摘要：That support also aided his decision to leave "a financially secure job" at JP Morgan.

That support also aided his decision to leave "a financially secure job" at JP Morgan.

South Africa was one of the hardest-hit on the continent. Extended periods of total lockdown drove the economy to the doldrums. “We lost two million jobs,” says the employment minister.The ANC’s main political rival, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has described recent unemployment figures as a “jobs bloodbath.” The party promises to “transform South Africa into an enterprise economy”. It calls the DA-led Western Cape, the province with the lowest unemployment rate in the country, “South Africa’s job engine” and says it is an example how the party could transform the country.

In contrast, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), led by, touts nationalisation as the answer to unemployment. The EFF also promises to give a monthly stipend to unemployed graduates.There is a clear understanding and acknowledgement of the magnitude of the challenge of unemployment across the political divide.

The ANC has evidently scored poorly on jobs, but the alternatives remain untested and their ideas, varied as they may be, remain a hard sell.At the job fair in Durban there are some who will stick with the ANC as they have not seen any better options, but the sense of disappointment among many is palpable.

One woman, who did not want to be identified, says the “government has failed us. It’s very painful”.

Five puppies have been learning to make a splash in the world as they train to become guide dogs."Very gifted and very capable but very much at ease with himself and those around him - he is very easy to talk to. A good man really," he said.

A new queen was crowned as the eighth Māori monarch in New Zealand as her father, Kiingi Tuheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII, was laid to rest.Twenty-seven-year-old Ngā Wai hono i te pō was chosen as kuini - the Māori word for queen - by a council of New Zealand's indigenous Māori chiefs during an elaborate ceremony in the country's North Island.

She is only the second Māori queen, the first being her grandmother, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu.Ngā Wai hono i te pō is the youngest child of Kiingi Tuheitia,