Unemployment
'Disturbing': 40% of SA's Gen Zs don't know about June 16 - Ramaphosa
It is disturbing that knowledge and awareness of the events of June 16th is diminishing among young South Africans, writes President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: When times are tough, it's easy to be pessimistic
Sometimes we are so absorbed by our shortcomings, that we often fail to acknowledge what we are doing right and where things are improving, writes President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Pandemic plunges 100 mn more workers into poverty: UN
The ILO's annual World Employment and Social Outlook report indicated that the planet would be 75 million jobs short at the end of this year compared to if the pandemic had not occurred.
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1.4 million fewer SAfricans were employed this year, says Stats SA
This was revealed in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey Results for the first quarter of 2021 on Tuesday.
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A breakdown of SA's latest unemployment figures
Stats SA said that the number of employed people in the country remained almost unchanged at 15 million between the fourth quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021. The official unemployment rate increased slightly to 32.6% in the first quarter of 2021.
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SA unemployment rate ticks up to 32.6% in Q1 of 2021
This is the highest the figure has been since the start of the QLFS in 2008.
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MCEBO DLAMINI: On the indignity of black labour
The kinds of jobs black people have to do shows the dearth of dignity for them in South Africa, writes Mcebo Dlamini.
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Disappointing April jobs data pose new challenge for Biden agenda
The weak hiring also pushed the unemployment rate up slightly to 6.1%, according to the Labor Department's monthly employment report released on Friday.
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SPECIAL REPORT: How COVID-19 is SA's baptism of fire in an age of pandemics
Looking back at a year of South Africa's state of disaster, we look at some of the wins, losses and simply survival in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SA employment ticked up 0.8% in Q4 of 2020 - Stats SA
According to the data, the total number of employed persons increased from 9.56 million to 9.64 million in the period September 2020 to December 2020, an increase of 76,000.
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WC lost more than 151,000 jobs in 2020 - Wesgro
The global COVID-19 pandemic saw many people lose their jobs in the tourism, informal, construction and trade industries.
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ANALYSIS: Granular understanding of joblessness in SA can help pinpoint policies
Joblessness has become a fixture of the South African economy. Understanding the patterns of who is out of work and for how long is key to designing policies to address the problem.
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Black Sash calls for R350 COVID-19 grant to be extended by a year
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni confirmed this week that provision had been made by Treasury to extend the R350 grant for unemployed people until April this year.
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Saftu members to march today over SA’s economic challenges
Several small gatherings, in line with COVID-19 regulations, were expected to take place around the country to highlight challenges such as unemployment which now sits at 32.5%.
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Stats SA: More than half of EC residents of working age unemployed in Q4
While the Eastern Cape tops the expanded unemployment chart among all provinces, its neighbour, the Western Cape’s rate stood at 26.8% as the least affected by the crisis.
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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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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: COVID-19 recovery requires difficult decisions to be taken
While our temporary COVID relief measures have helped, the country will not be able to sustain them indefinitely, writes Cyril Ramaphosa.
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ZWELINZIMA VAVI: Stop merely discussing the basic income grant
The state must implement the basic income grant now if it wants to retain any semblance of legitimacy, writes Zwelinzima Vavi.
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US loses 140,000 jobs in December, unemployment 6.7%: govt
"The decline in payroll employment reflects the recent increase in coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and efforts to contain the pandemic," the Labour Department said.
