Job losses
Chris Hani Hospital employees picket against post cuts
The department employed about 800 nurses and doctors in temporary posts to deal with the pandemic two years ago but would now have to let go of some of them due...
With businesses looted, destroyed and unable to function during the violence, the Black Business Council said that small to medium business enterprises and their value chains had suffered the greatest losses.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura made the announcement during his State of the Province Address where he also laid out his four priorities for the new financial year which include plans to boost the economy.
Stats SA on Tuesday announced that South Africa’s unemployment rate increased to 32.5% in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to the third quarter. Eyewitness News unpacks the statistics.
"The decline in payroll employment reflects the recent increase in coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and efforts to contain the pandemic," the Labour Department said.
Four out of every 10 South Africans who should be in work remain jobless and this year more than two million jobs were wiped out.
Economic experts have criticised Stats SA’s decision to define the 2.2 million job losses during the second quarter as economically not active people.
There needs to be an urgent expansion of price controls, as well as an inquiry into the price-setting of major retailers.
Two out of every five adults interviewed between May and June reported that their household had lost its main source of income since the lockdown started.
Statistics South Africa said the country’s non-agriculture sector saw employment decrease by about 3,000 jobs in the first quarter of this year compared with the final quarter of last year.
This brings the total number of persons employed in the formal non-agricultural sector in South Africa to 10.2 million.
MEC Pillay said the total amount needed to fight COVID-19 in the province was estimated at R11.5 billion.
The president fielded questions from South Africans during his second public platform imbizo on Wednesday night.
The National Income Dynamics Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey has found two thirds of the job losses were among women.
The provincial Treasury Department head David Savage said of the over 200,000 job losses predicted, several came from the tourism industry.
Compliance with occupational health and safety requirements is already poor and few inspections of workplaces are being done.
In his May Day statement on Friday, the President said the health of all South Africans is important – but poor, unemployed and working-class citizens are top of his mind.
SAA issued the draft proposal to terminate contracts after government refused to provide further funding in aid of the airline's business rescue proceedings.
On Tuesday, government rejected the airline’s rescue practitioners’ request for a further R10 billion.