{"id":13017,"date":"2012-07-31T13:50:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/s-africas-q2-jobless-rate-slows-to-24-9-percent\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:50:34","slug":"s-africas-q2-jobless-rate-slows-to-24-9-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-q2-jobless-rate-slows-to-24-9-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Q2 jobless rate slows to 24.9 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PRETORIA, July 31<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s official<br \/>\njobless rate slowed to 24.9 percent of the labour force in the<br \/>\nsecond quarter of 2012 from 25.2 percent in the first quarter, a<br \/>\nsurvey showed on Tuesay.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In its latest quartely Labour Force Survey, Statistics South<br \/>\nAfrica said the total number of unemployed people stood at 4.47<br \/>\nmillion in the three months to June from 4.5 million in the<br \/>\nfirst quarter.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The expanded definition of unemployment, which includes<br \/>\npeople who have stopped looking for work was at 36.2 percent<br \/>\nfrom 36.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Xola Potelwa; Editing by Stella Mapenzauswa)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA, July 31 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s official jobless rate slowed to 24.9 percent of the labour force in the second quarter of 2012 from 25.2 percent in the first quarter, a survey showed on Tuesay. In its latest quartely Labour Force Survey, Statistics South Africa said the total number of unemployed people stood at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}