{"id":253879,"date":"2018-06-25T09:50:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=253879"},"modified":"2018-06-26T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T11:31:10","slug":"the-western-cape-created-75-of-all-new-jobs-in-sa-over-the-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/253879\/the-western-cape-created-75-of-all-new-jobs-in-sa-over-the-past-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Western Cape created 75% of net jobs in SA over the past year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note<\/strong>: Africa Check has updated its original report to include comment on the \u201cconfusing\u201d nature of the claim. <\/em><\/p>\n

The Democratic Alliance (DA) recently posted on its Twitter<\/a> <\/strong>page that\u00a0the Western Cape has created 75% of all jobs in South Africa in the past year.<\/p>\n

The political party’s claim has been backed up and confirmed by fact-checking group,\u00a0Africa Check<\/a><\/strong>, which showed that\u00a0the claim is based on Statistics South Africa\u2019s (Stats SA)\u00a0Quarterly Labour Force Survey<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for January to March 2018.<\/p>\n

However it has cautioned that the somewhat confusing claim in based on ‘net’ jobs created.<\/em><\/p>\n

“A manager with Stats SA\u2019s labour statistics division, Malerato Mosiane, told Africa Check that the claim was correct for net jobs.\u00a0Net jobs are the number of job gains minus jobs losses,” it said.<\/p>\n

“In the Western Cape, there were\u00a0123,000 more net jobs\u00a0in the first quarter of 2018 compared to the first quarter of 2017. If you work this out as a percentage of the 165,000 net jobs added for the whole country it does equal 74.5%.<\/p>\n

This does not mean, however, that the rest of the country only produced 25% of jobs over the same period.<\/p>\n

Since the DA\u2019s calculation is based on net jobs, Limpopo can claim it created 50.3% of net jobs and KwaZulu-Natal can claim it created 37.6%<\/p>\n

Stats SA\u2019s Mosiane told Africa Check that the Western Cape, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 162% of net jobs. She said that claims like this \u201cmay be confusing\u201d.<\/p>\n

This sentiment was also shared by Zaakhir Asmal, a researcher at the University of Cape Town\u2019s\u00a0Development Policy Research Unit.<\/p>\n

\u201cMathematically it makes sense,\u201d Asmal said, \u201cbut intuitively it is confusing to say that all of the provinces that experienced an increase in jobs over the period contributed to more than 100%of the total change in employment over the period.\u201d<\/p>\n

This positive growth was offset by negative contributions made by Mpumalanga (-12.1%), the Eastern Cape (-27.3%) and Gauteng (-75.2%) over this period.<\/p>\n

When the positive and negative contributions of all nine provinces are totalled they equal 100%, as the table below shows.<\/p>\n

Asmal added that political parties in South Africa should take care when they boast of job creation in the areas they govern.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile it may be true to say that a certain proportion of jobs created in the country was created in a particular province, it is not necessarily correct to say \u2013 or imply without evidence \u2013 that this is because a particular province is governed by a particular party,\u201d Asmal told Africa Check.<\/p>\n

Provincial job statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Province<\/th>\nYear-on-year change<\/th>\nContribution<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Western Cape<\/td>\n+123 000<\/span><\/td>\n74.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Limpopo<\/td>\n+83 000<\/span><\/td>\n50.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
KwaZulu-Natal<\/td>\n+62 000<\/span><\/td>\n37.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Free State<\/td>\n+48 000<\/span><\/td>\n29.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northern Cape<\/td>\n+22 000<\/span><\/td>\n13.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North West<\/td>\n+16 000<\/span><\/td>\n9.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mpumalanga<\/td>\n-20 000<\/span><\/td>\n-12.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eastern Cape<\/td>\n-45 000<\/span><\/td>\n-27.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gauteng<\/td>\n-124 000<\/span><\/td>\n-75.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gauteng\u2019s finance sector lost\u00a076,000 jobs\u00a0between the first quarters of 2017 and 2018 – in comparison, the Western Cape saw an increase of 57,000 finance jobs over the same time period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[9731,26],"class_list":["post-253879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-africa-check","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253879","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=253879"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254311,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253879\/revisions\/254311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}