People celebrate in the tribune before the memorial service for Nelson Mandela on December 10, 2013 at Soccer Ciy Stadium in Johannesburg. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95. Mandela, who was elected South Africa’s first black president after spending nearly three decades in prison, had been receiving treatment for a lung infection at his Johannesburg home since September, after three months in hospital in a critical state. AFP PHOTO
South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 27.5 percent in the third quarter from 27.2 percent in the second quarter, the country’s statistics office said on Tuesday.
Statistics South Africa said in its quarterly labour force survey in Johannesburg that there were 6.2 million people without jobs in the three months to the end of September.
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The office said the figure was against the 6.1 million people without job in the prior quarter.
The statistics office said the formal sector, private households and agriculture recorded declines in employment, while the informal sector had employment gains.
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It said that the expanded definition of unemployment, which includes people who have stopped looking for work, rose slightly to 37.3 per cent in the third quarter from 37.2 per cent in the previous quarter.
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