By Kouthar Sambo Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has released its first-ever migration profile, which has tracked the movements of labour migration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Speaking on VOC’s In Conversation show on Wednesday, the Chief Director responsible for demographic and population Statistics Diego Iturralde, said[…]
By Ragheema Mclean While unemployment in South remains a major cause for concern, slight areas of improvement were recorded in the third quarter of 2023. According to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) released by Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) this week, the country’s unemployment rate now stands at 31.9%. The[…]
Statistics South Africa has released the unemployment rate for the second quarter of 2023, which declined slightly to 32.6% from 32.9% in the first quarter. The number of unemployed people also declined slightly, coming in at 7 921 000. According to an expanded definition of unemployment that includes those discouraged[…]
Be warned. Scammers are trying to lure South Africans into a trap under the guise of jobs at Stats SA and fraudulently using the name of President Cyril Ramaphosa. The presidency has warned “there are scam messages purporting to be sanctioned by the president or the presidency”. “The president does[…]
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) said although the unemployment figures for Q4 of 2022 show a minor decline, it remains doubtful that the country has entered a trajectory of growth of employment. Stats SA revealed yesterday that the country’s official unemployment rate eased marginally to 32.7% in[…]
LOCAL Feelings of safety in SA have been declining since 2019/20, data released by Stats SA show. According to the Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2021/22, released by statistician-general Risenga Maluleke on Tuesday, the percentage of adults aged 16 years and older who felt safe walking alone in their[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged all South Africans to work towards a speedy economic recovery. This plea came after 2.2 million jobs were lost nationwide in the second quarter of 2020. The president responded to the data released by Stats SA, which revealed that the country’s unemployment rate fell to[…]
SA’s economy shrank by 0.6% in the three months to end-September, Stats SA announced on Tuesday. This is the second time this year that SA’s economy has contracted. In the second quarter of the year the economy grew by 3.1%, after shrinking by 3.2% in the first quarter. Stats SA said one[…]
South Africa’s unemployment remains one of the highest in the world despite some improvement in the fourth quarter of 2018. Figures released by Statistics South Africa show that there were 6.1 million people without jobs in the three months to the end of December 2018. This is compared with 6.2[…]
Teenagers between the age of 10 and 19 have contributed 13.9% to registered child birth in 2016, according to the Recorded Live Births report released by Statistics South Africa on Thursday. Out of the 969 415 births recorded last year, 136 996 were born to teen mothers, and another large[…]
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