PRETORIA Feb 7 (Reuters) – South Africa’s official
jobless rate eased to 23.9 percent of the labour fource in the
fourth quarter of 2011, from 25.0 percent in the third quarter,
a survery showed on Tuesday.
In its latest quartely Labour Force Survey, Statistics South
Africa said the total number of unemployed people stood at 4.244
million in the three months to December from 4.442 million in
the third quarter.
The expanded definition of unemployment, which includes
people who have stopped looking for work, decreased by 0.6
percentage points to 35.4 percent.
(Reporting by Xola Potelwa; Editing by Stella Mapenzauswa)
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