{"id":14941,"date":"2025-11-10T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-unemployment-expected-to-remain-at-elevated-level\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:20","slug":"sa-unemployment-expected-to-remain-at-elevated-level","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-unemployment-expected-to-remain-at-elevated-level\/","title":{"rendered":"SA unemployment expected to remain at elevated level"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The\u00a0unemployment in South Africa (SA) is expected to have remained at elevated levels\u00a0in the third quarter of 2025 as the economy continues on a weak growth trajectory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The second quarter official unemployment number rose to 33.2%, up from 32.9% registered in the first quarter.<br \/>\nThe expanded unemployment rate &#8211; including those\u00a0who\u00a0have given up looking for work was at 42.9%.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\n<p>Statistics SA will release the third quarter data on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The weak economic growth negatively impacts jobs creation prospects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The local economy is expected to grow at 1.2% for this year, due to unfavourable global conditions and structural constraints.<\/div>\n<div>Young people also remain a vulnerable group in the labour market.<\/div>\n<div>Second quarter data showed\u00a0that\u00a0unemployment for young people aged between 15 and 34.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13562,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-14941","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"SA is expected to have remained at elevated levels\u00a0in the third quarter of 2025","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19386,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14941\/revisions\/19386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}