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/ 17 January 2011
Come January each year, thousands of matrics enter the South African job market only to discover that it isn’t so much a “market” as a car-boot sale.
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/ 10 January 2011
Jobs in the retail sector received a boost from festive spending, but overall employment was down in December.
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/ 6 December 2010
To realise its vision, the country has to address rampant unemployment.
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/ 5 November 2010
The United States created 151 000 jobs in October, much better than expected amid a weak recovery.
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/ 27 October 2010
We’re faced with the highest rate of unemployment in South Africa for the past five years. But monetary policy alone can’t solve the problem.
The government says it intends to create five million jobs over the next decade with a "New Growth Path" plan.
Everyone knows cutting housing benefits just takes us down the route to US-style ghettos
One in six adults is unemployed but the ANC’s economic report mentions ‘jobs’ only twice.
History continues to judge Africans harshly. A fundamental reality is that Africa is behind other continents in many respects.
SA’s unemployment rate climbed to 25,3% in the second quarter of 2010, a slight increase from 25,2% in the first three months of the year.
Although employment fell across all job types, it declined most sharply in the highly cyclical construction and trade sectors.
South African businesses have grown more worried about the direction of economic policy and the impact of above-inflation pay rises.
South Africa’s latest unemployment figures were a cause for concern, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
The unemployment rate for the first quarter of 2010 increased 0,9 of a percentage point to 25,2%, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday.
Creating more jobs is South Africa’s most critical challenge, Deputy Minister of Finance Nhlanhla Nene said in Johannesburg on Friday.
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/ 9 February 2010
SA’s official unemployment rate edged lower in the fourth quarter of 2009, halting massive job losses.
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/ 25 January 2010
Workers have yet to see any proof of a recovery from the recession, despite what academics and the media are saying, Cosatu says.
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/ 17 December 2009
It will be a black Christmas for about five million South Africans this year after the devastating economic crisis, Cosatu said on Thursday.
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/ 15 December 2009
The formal sector has lost about 330 000 jobs in the past 12 months, according to trade union Solidarity.
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/ 11 December 2009
Why does it take the loss of a million jobs to get business and labour to call for measures to protect jobs?
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/ 3 December 2009
SA may still lose more jobs even though the economy began growing again in the last quarter, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
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/ 29 October 2009
SA’s official jobless rate increased to 24,5% of the labour force in the third quarter of 2009, from 23,6% in the second quarter, a report shows.
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/ 18 September 2009
Despite his PhD, Kevin Goddard finds himself among the murky family of the unemployed.
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/ 4 September 2009
The pace of US job losses hit a one-year low last month but the unemployment rate jumped to a 26-year high of 9,7%, the government said on Friday.
Government is shaking up a cocktail of unemployment, skills and incentive funding to ward off the worst of the current recession.
As SA’s unemployment lines keep growing in its first post-apartheid recession, Johannesburg’s sidewalks are increasingly crowded with street traders.
SA’s official jobless rate ticked up slightly in the second quarter, a labour report showed on Tuesday.
The government is still committed to halving unemployment and poverty by 2014, despite the global economic downturn, Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday.
SA’s drive to create millions of job opportunities will cost R10-billion over the next three years, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said.
We all know that fewer companies are hiring, and more companies are downsizing, but now the numbers have emerged. And they look gloomy.
Mooinooi, a one-employer town, where many workers have a single skill, is hurting badly as a result of Wall Street’s excesses.
Growing unemployment will make it hard for the ANC to meet its target of halving unemployment within the first two decades of freedom, Cosatu said.