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Unemployment rate increases to 35.3% in fourth quarter of 2021: Stats SA

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintNaledi Ngcobo, SABC News, 29 March 2022 Joblessness among South Africans continues to climb with the unemployment rate having increased from 34.9% to 35.3% in the fourth quarter of 2021. Read More

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SA unemployment rate increases to 34.9% in Q3

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintEyewitness News, 30 November 2021 South Africa’s official unemployment rate increased to 34.9% in the third quarter of 2021, according to data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey released by Statistics South Africa on Tuesday. Read More

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SA unemployment rate hits new record high in second quarter

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintOlivia Kumwenda-Mtambo, Times Live, 24 August 2021 SA’s unemployment rate hit a new record high of 34.4% in the second quarter of 2021 from 32.6% in the first quarter, the statistics agency said on Tuesday. Read More

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SA unemployment rate ticks up to 32.6% in Q1 of 2021

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintEyewitness News, 1 June 2021 Stats SA said that the number of employed people in the country remained almost unchanged at 15 million, although there was a slight decrease of 28,000, according to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the … Continue reading

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SA unemployment rate reaches an 11-year high

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintSiphelele Dludla, IOL Business Report, 29 October 2019 South Africa’s unemployment rate has increased by 0,1 of a percentage point to 29,1 percent in the third quarter compared to the second quarter, highest it has been in 11 years. Read … Continue reading

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