By Ntsakisi Maswanganyi –
SA SHOULD embrace technology and mechanisation instead of dreading it, given mechanisation’s long-term benefits of job creation and higher productivity, Productivity SA CEO Bongani Coka says.
Competitive countries such as Singapore had “very high” automation as well as “single-digit unemployment”, Mr Coka said.
His comments come as strike-hit companies in mining and manufacturing increasingly talk about replacing labour with machines to minimise costs amid rising wages and administered costs.
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