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South Africa: SA Unemployment Bloodbath - More Than 500,000 Jobs Lost in One Year
Daily Maverick, 29 June 2021
Renewed lockdown Level 4 restrictions will rub salt into this festering wound on South Africa's body politic. Read more »
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South Africa: Unemployed Security Guards Shut Down Municipal Customer Care Centre
GroundUp, 22 June 2021
About 50 unemployed security guards shut down a busy municipal customer care service centre in the Gqeberha city centre on Tuesday. Read more »
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South Africa: KZN Unveils Database to Recruit Unemployed Graduates
SAnews.gov.za, 15 June 2021
The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government has set up a database aimed at helping unemployed graduates. Read more »
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South Africa: Stereotypes About Young Jobless People Are Wrong - What They're Really Up To
The Conversation Africa, 14 June 2021
South Africa has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. A whopping 63% of its young people between the ages of 15 and 24 years are jobless. A large proportion of… Read more »
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South Africa: Concern At High Unemployment Figures
SAnews.gov.za, 3 June 2021
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has expressed concern at the country's unemployment figures. Read more »
Over 500,000 Jobs Lost in One Year in South Africa
The latest Quarterly Employment Survey has found that the total number of people employed in South Africa fell by more than 500,000 between March 2020 and March 2021. Total employment is down by 522,000, or 5.4%, on a year-on-year basis. Full-time employment over the same period fell by 599,000 or 6.5%. Renewed lockdown Level 4 restrictions are expected to raise figures,
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has expressed concern at the statistics. "One of the most concerning areas was in the youth category which remains the most vulnerable in the South African labour market. "For instance, 32.4% of the 10.2 million youth (15-24 years) reported not to be in employment, education or training (NEET) in quarter one of 2021. It constituted 29.6% of NEET in December 2020. Nevertheless, the NEET rate for females was higher than that of their male counterparts in both quarters."
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Migrants from other parts of the continent remain under threat in parts of South Africa, particularly in communities such as Diepkloof in Soweto. where dozens of people armed with ... Read more »
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The media frequently portray young people excluded from wage work as inactive, aimless and alienated from mainstream society. This image feeds into fears of crime, violence and ... Read more »
Unemployed young men in Mamelodi, South Africa wait for an offer of casual labour next to businesses that are trading out of converted shipping containers (file photo).
