{"id":14754,"date":"2012-09-18T16:39:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-african-non-farm-jobs-up-0-5-pct-in-april-june\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T16:39:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:39:32","slug":"s-african-non-farm-jobs-up-0-5-pct-in-april-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-african-non-farm-jobs-up-0-5-pct-in-april-june\/","title":{"rendered":"S.African non-farm jobs up 0.5 pct in April-June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, Sept 18<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The number of people<br \/>\nemployed in South Africa&#8217;s formal sector nudged up 0.5 percent<br \/>\nin the second quarter of 2012 with the mining sector taking on<br \/>\nmore workers but jobs losses in manufacturing, a survey showed<br \/>\non Tuesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s largest economy, with 24.9 percent of the labour force<br \/>\nout of work in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The mining sector drove gross domestic product growth to 3.2<br \/>\npercent in the second quarter but a mining strike begun at<br \/>\nLonmin&#8217;s  platinum mine last month is likely to<br \/>\nreverse these gains in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The government said on Monday that strikes in the mining<br \/>\nindustry this year have cost the industry 4.5 billion rand ($548<br \/>\nmillion) in lost output.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Statistics South Africa said employment increased by 42,000<br \/>\npeople in the second quarter of this year to 8.425 million<br \/>\nemployees and was up 1.5 percent on a year-on-year basis.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The manufacturing sector, which contributes 15 percent to<br \/>\nGDP, lost 9,000 jobs in the quarter compared with the first<br \/>\nthree months of the year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Analysts say South Africa needs to relax its labour laws to<br \/>\ncreate the jobs it needs to stem social unrest and drive<br \/>\neconomic growth.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>($1 = 8.2075 South African rand)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Xola Potelwa; Editing by Ruth Pitchford)<\/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>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 18 (Reuters) &#8211; The number of people employed in South Africa&#8217;s formal sector nudged up 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2012 with the mining sector taking on more workers but jobs losses in manufacturing, a survey showed on Tuesday. Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing Africa&#8217;s largest economy, with [&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-14754","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\/14754","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=14754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}