{"id":9130,"date":"2012-03-20T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africas-q4-non-farm-employment-up-0-3-pct-qq\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T13:22:07","slug":"s-africas-q4-non-farm-employment-up-0-3-pct-qq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-q4-non-farm-employment-up-0-3-pct-qq\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa’s Q4 non-farm employment up 0.3 pct q\/q"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Manufacturing adds, jobs, but losses in mining<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Employment up 1.6 percent q\/q in fourth quarter<\/p>\n

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JOHANNESBURG, March 20<\/span> (Reuters) – The number of people
\nemployed in South Africa’s formal sector inched up only 0.3
\npercent in the fourth quarter of 2011 with the manufacturing
\nsector among the few that added jobs, Statistics South Africa
\nsaid on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Chronic unemployment remains one of the biggest challenges
\nfacing Africa’s biggest economy, with nearly 24 percent of the
\nlabour force reported as jobless in the fourth quarter of last
\nyear.<\/p>\n

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Employment rose by 23,000 people during the last three
\nmonths of 2011 to 8.381 million and was up 1.6 percent on a
\nyear-on-year basis, Statistics South Africa said.<\/p>\n

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Sectors that saw increased employment during the quarter
\nincluded manufacturing, which accounts for about 15 percent of
\ngross domestic product, as well as electricity, gas and water
\nsupply, wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants.<\/p>\n

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But jobs were lost in the mining and quarrying industries as
\nwell as construction, among others.<\/p>\n

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Gross earnings paid to employees during the quarter
\namounted to 364.42 billion rand ($48.4 billion), up 7.1 percent
\nover the third quarter.<\/p>\n

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In its latest quarterly labour force survey last month,
\nStatistics South Africa said the total number of jobless people
\nstood at 4.244 million in the three months to December from
\n4.442 million in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

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Only a fraction of the million jobs lost during a recession
\nin 2009 have been recouped, and economic growth – seen at 2.7
\npercent this year – remains below the 7 percent expansion the
\ngovernment says is needed to make a meaningful dent in
\nunemployment.
\n($1 = 7.5343 South African rand)\t<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa, editing by Ed Stoddard\/Ruth
\nPitchford)<\/p>\n

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