{"id":25628,"date":"2012-11-01T11:05:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T09:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=25628"},"modified":"2012-11-01T15:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T13:29:52","slug":"sa-unemployment-rises-to-25-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/25628\/sa-unemployment-rises-to-25-5\/","title":{"rendered":"SA unemployment rises to 25.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s unemployment rate rose to 25.5% in the quarter ended September 2012 &#8211; the third quarter &#8211; from 24.9% in the second quarter\u201a <a title=\"Statistics South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2812-Statistics-South-Africa\">Statistics South Africa<\/a>\u2019s quarterly labour force survey released on Thursday shows.<\/p>\n<p>This means there were 4.7 million unemployed people in the third quarter\u201a the highest level since the introduction of the QLFS in the thrid quarter of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 4.7 million persons looking for work\u201a 3.1 milion of them have been looking for a period of one year or longer.<\/p>\n<p>The figures show that the number of unemployed persons increased by 197\u201a000 between the second and third quarters\u201a following a decline of 56\u201a000 persons in the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA rated in global entrepreneurship index\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/25474\/sa-rated-in-global-entrepreneurship-index\/\"><strong>SA rated in global entrepreneurship index<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"SA GDP growth projection cut to 2.5%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/21128\/sa-gdp-growth-projection-cut-to-2-5\/\">IT jobs in SA: good news and bad news<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"SA GDP growth projection cut to 2.5%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/21128\/sa-gdp-growth-projection-cut-to-2-5\/\">SA GDP growth projection cut to 2.5%<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stern warning on SA\u2019s unemployment rate\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/20566\/stern-warning-on-sas-unemployment-rate\/\"><strong>Stern warning on SA\u2019s unemployment rate<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s unemployment rate rose to 25.5% in the quarter ended Seotember 2012 &#8211; the third quarter &#8211; from 24.9% in the second quarter according to Stats SA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,3745,1809,3651],"class_list":["post-25628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-statistics-south-africa","tag-stats-sa","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25660,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628\/revisions\/25660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}