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Inside SA's Q4 2020 unemployment figures
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.
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Stats SA vows to conduct 2021 census ‘even in state of difficulty’
Postponing the census was not an option that statistician general Risenga Maluleke even wanted to contemplate at this point.
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Manufacturing production decreased by 3.5% in November – Stats SA
The decline in manufacturing production wasn’t unexpected given the difficult economic conditions that underpinned the year.
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After COVID-19 ravaged the SA labour market in 2020, more gloom set for 2021
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.
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Stats SA: All industries saw job losses y/y in Q3
Most job losses were reported in business services, followed by trade with 162,000 job losses as compared to the third quarter in 2019.
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Q3 employment survey sees SA economy shed 616,000 jobs
However, there was an increase of 75,000 jobs when compared to the second quarter of this year, when the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic were harsher.
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Q3 GDP bounce-back means there's hope for the economy - Maluleke
The figures show that gross domestic product grew between July and September by a seasonally adjusted, annualised 66.1%, or by 13.5% on quarter two, when the hard lockdown put the brakes on economic activity.
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Maluleke: Q3 GDP data started from a very low base
Stats SA said that gross domestic product grew by an annualised rate of 66.1%.
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FACT CHECK: Mboweni claim that almost 100% of SA's restaurant staff are foreign
Africa Check takes a closer look at the claim made by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni that close to 100% of restaurant workers in South Africa are foreign.
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Inside SA's third quarter GDP figures
The gross domestic product (GDP) figures for the third quarter of 2020 revealed that the South African economy grew by an annualised rate of 66.1% in the third quarter – or 13.5% quarter on quarter.
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SA GDP grew by 13.5% q/q in third quarter of 2020
Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke has released the GDP results for the third quarter of 2020.
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FACT CHECK: Are there really 15 mln ‘undocumented foreigners’ in South Africa?
Africa Check takes a closer look at this recent claim by South African politician and businessperson Herman Mashaba.
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Food, non-alcoholic beverages price help push CPI to seven-month high
The price increases are still within targets set by the South African Reserve Bank, which aims to have the inflation rate between 3% and 6%.
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SA’s job market continues to decline as unemployment rate soars
While the country’s working-age population continued to grow, increasing by 585,000 or 1.5% in the third quarter, the job market continued to contract.
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Cosatu not surprised by increase in SA's unemployment rate, blames policymaking
Stats SA announced on Thursday that the unemployment rate was at a record high of 30.8%.
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Current policies bring little change in SA's poverty & inequality levels - study
A study conducted by the NDA and the University of Johannesburg has found that policy documents intended to eradicate poverty were not in short supply.
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Ramaphosa hopes to see rapid rebound in employment after 2.2m jobs lost
The president was responding to the data released by Stats SA, which revealed that South Africa's unemployment rate fell to 23.3% in the second quarter from 30.1% in the first quarter due to fewer people looking for work amid the nation's strict coronavirus lockdown.
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Stats SA's Quarterly Labour Force Survey results confusing - economic experts
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.
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SA’s unemployment figures not shocking given state of economy, says Cosatu
Stats SA on Tuesday said the country’s unemployment rate declined to 23.3% between April and June from 30.1% in the quarter before.
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10.3m young people in SA not in employment, education, or training - Stats SA
The number of discouraged work-seekers in the country has increased by close to 500,000, while the total number of people who are not economically active for other reasons increased to 5.6 million between the first and second quarter of the year.
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Stats SA: To be viewed as unemployed, you must be actively looking for a job
Stats SA on Tuesday said the official unemployment figure shrunk to a record low from 30.1% in the first quarter of the year, the lowest unemployment rate recorded since 2008.
