{"id":16066,"date":"2012-11-01T20:24:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T18:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/update-3-one-in-four-south-africans-jobless-mine-layoffs-loom\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T20:24:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T18:24:54","slug":"update-3-one-in-four-south-africans-jobless-mine-layoffs-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-one-in-four-south-africans-jobless-mine-layoffs-loom\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-One-in-four South Africans jobless, mine layoffs loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* More than one in four of labour force unemployed in Q3<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Number of jobless highest since survey started in 2008<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* More than seven in 10 jobless are aged 15-34<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Layoffs in violence-hit mining to drive unemployment up<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Xola Potelwa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Nov 1 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s unemployment<br \/>\nrate rose in the third quarter, with more than one in four out<br \/>\nof work and unrest in the mining sector expected to drive that<br \/>\nnumber higher still.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has made job<br \/>\ncreation a priority, but the rate has been stuck above 20<br \/>\npercent for more than a decade despite periods of strong<br \/>\neconomic growth, fuelling social unrest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Joblessness increased to 25.5 percent of the labour force,<br \/>\nStatistics South Africa said on Thursday, putting 197,000 more<br \/>\nworkers on the streets during the quarter. The agency said 4.667<br \/>\nmillion people were registered as unemployed, the highest figure<br \/>\nsince current records began four years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s amongst the highest unemployment rates globally and<br \/>\nhighlights quite strongly that we need to be taking some<br \/>\ncorrective action,&#8221; said Colen Garrow, an economist at<br \/>\nJohannesburg-based consultancy Meganomics.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* More than one in four of labour force unemployed in Q3 * Number of jobless highest since survey started in 2008 * More than seven in 10 jobless are aged 15-34 * Layoffs in violence-hit mining to drive unemployment up By Xola Potelwa JOHANNESBURG, Nov 1 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s unemployment rate rose in [&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-16066","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\/16066","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=16066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}