SA’s unemployment rate increases to 25.5%

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s unemployment rate increased to 25.5 percent of the labour force in the second quarter of 2014, from 25.2 percent in Q1, data showed on Tuesday. In its quarterly labour force survey, which polls households, Statistics South Africa said this amounted to 5.154 million people without work in the second quarter, up from 5.067 … Read more

SA’s unemployment rate rises to 25.2% in Q1 2014

PRETORIA (Reuters) – South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 25.2 percent of the labour force in the first quarter of 2014 from 24.1 percent in Q4, data showed on Monday. In its quarterly labour force survey, which polls households, Statistics South Africa said this amounted to 5.067 million people without work in the first quarter, up from 4.83 … Read more