{"id":174311,"date":"2017-05-10T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=174311"},"modified":"2017-05-10T18:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:03:52","slug":"6-graphs-that-will-change-how-you-think-about-skilled-workers-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/174311\/6-graphs-that-will-change-how-you-think-about-skilled-workers-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"6 graphs that will change what you think about skilled workers in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Employment Equity Commission for South Africa has released its 2016\/17 report, showing how the country’s skilled workforce has transformed in recent years.<\/p>\n

The EEC\u2019s report is based on 26,255 employment equity reports from companies across the country, compared to 25,030 EE reports it received in 2015.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the reports come from the private sector (94.8%) \u2013 representing 5.3 million workers \u2013 with the balance made up of non-profit organisations, state-owned enterprises, educational institutions and national, provincial and local government.<\/p>\n

At a top and senior management level, white South Africans still occupy the majority of positions, as indicated in the following article:
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Read:\u00a0<\/strong> These graphs reveal the truth about black and white management in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A ‘positive trend’ towards equitable representation is noted for the first time at professionally qualified\/ middle management level, the report said.<\/p>\n

Black South Africans, at 41.5%, leads in representation at this Level, it said.<\/p>\n

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Workforce profile at professionally qualified level for public and private sectors by race:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Black South Africans are mostly represented at the skilled technical occupational level, the government’s report found.<\/p>\n

More than two thirds of employees at this level are black, with 60.2% of this level being represented by the african group. “This remains below their EAP distribution, but is a movement in the right direction,” it said.<\/p>\n

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The report also suggested that both the private and public sector have made significant strides in employing black South Africans at this occupational\u00a0 level.<\/p>\n

“Africans have in fact exceeded their EAP (economically active population) distribution in the Public Sector. The skilled\u00a0 technical occupational level is a feeder level into the other management levels and it is encouraging to note this,” the report said.<\/p>\n

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Between 2014 and 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

The trend analysis of the workforce profile of employees between 2014 and 2016 shows a decline in the representation of the white and Indian South Africans at the professionally qualified level.<\/p>\n

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Representation of the African, Indian and Coloured groups at the Skilled Technical level has gradually increased, while the representation of the white group has shown a steady decrease at this level, the report said.<\/p>\n

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Read: Black vs white middle class in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africans have very set ideas about the make-up of skilled and unskilled workers in the country – but the latest Employment Equity report, shows how the country’s workforce has transformed in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":119299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-174311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174311"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174413,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174311\/revisions\/174413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}