{"id":20819,"date":"2025-12-10T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=20819"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:04","slug":"sas-economy-remains-on-a-positive-trajectory-minister","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-economy-remains-on-a-positive-trajectory-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s economy remains on a positive trajectory: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African (SA) Minister in the Presidency, Khumbuzo Ntshavheni, says the country\u2019s economy remains on a positive trajectory with the growth in employment, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Ntshavheni says employment increased by 248 000 jobs in the third quarter of this year, with a decrease of 360 000 in unemployed people as announced by the quarterly labour force survey.<\/p>\n<p>Ntshavheni says Cabinet also welcomed the continuing improvement in Eskom\u2019s financial and operational performance, with the power utility recording a profit of R24.3 billion ($1.4 billion) after tax in the first six months, which is 37% higher than in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>She was speaking during a media briefing in Pretoria on the outcomes of last Friday\u2019s cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20841,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-20819","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ntshavheni says employment increased by 248 000 jobs in the third quarter of this year.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Ntshavheni says employment increased by 248 000 jobs in the third quarter of this year.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20819","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":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27232,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20819\/revisions\/27232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}