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BDLive reports that data from Statistics SA (Stats SA) on Monday are expected to show that SA’s stubbornly high unemployment challenges continued in the first quarter of 2016.
The unemployment rate is likely to have increased, as the economy shed seasonal jobs created in the fourth quarter, and as new entrants enter the job market, Stats SA’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey is expected to show. SA’s unemployment rate was 24.5% in the fourth quarter of last year — an indication that 5.2-million people who were actively looking for work did not find any.
- Read this this report by Ntsakisi Maswanganyi in full at BDLive
- Read too, Labour market activity likely to have been constrained by weak economic growth, at TimesLive
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