Total of 237,000 jobs lost since end of 2018
The unemployment rate in SA surged to 27.6% in the first quarter of 2019, with the economy bleeding 237,000 jobs during the period, statistician-general Risenga Maluleke announced on Tuesday.
Maluleke attributed the increase in to a decline of 237,000 in the number of people in employment and to an increase of 62,000 in the number of people who were unemployed between the fourth quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019.
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