{
  "id": 6157156,
  "title": "How to get our idling factories humming and creating jobs again",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/how-to-get-our-idling-factories-humming-and-creating-jobs-again",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-04T22:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mail and Guardian",
    "slug": "mail-and-guardian",
    "url": "https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/2026-09-07-how-to-get-our-idling-factories-humming-and-creating-jobs-again/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A series of recent government policy announcements contain a welcome sense of urgency to turn around the economy and create much-needed jobs. However, there is an unwelcome overlooking of existing capacity of the South African economy, the part that needs a minor policy adjustment. A brief review of the announcements nonetheless points to an improvement in investment-friendly policies.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}