93,000 more jobs created
- Published on 13 Dec 2016
- HR Pulse News Desk
923,000 more South Africans were employed in the third quarter, Statistics SA’s latest Quarterly Employment Statistics report showed.
This comes on the back of a November release that showed that unemployment in SA rose to a record 27.1% high in the third quarter - the highest in 13 years. In Monday’s release, the official body said those employed grew 93,000 quarter-on-quarter, from almost 9.2 million in June 2016 to 9.28 million as of the end of September.
This was largely due to increases in community services (78,000 or 3.1%); trade (7,000 or 0.4%); construction (6,000 or 1.1%); business services (6,000 or 0.3%) and mining and quarrying (2,000 or 0.4%). There were decreases in manufacturing and transport, which each shed 3,000 jobs.
