South Africa is not immune from the socio-economic challenges facing most developing countries the world over. There is consensus amongst academics, practitioners, and political office-bearers that South Africa is faced with the triple challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequality. The discourse pertaining to these have become dominant in the public domain. Studies indicate that these challenges, as in the Census 2011 results conducted by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), remains endemic. In the face of an emerging debate on who is responsible for the widening gap between the rich and poor, its reality cannot be ignored. The existence of these challenges has been shed to light by recent volatilities in which the country witnessed individual groups resorting to wildcats strikes which were outside the formal bargaining processes. Consequentially, this has led to the government reprioritising and intensifying the struggle against