{"id":42163,"date":"2026-08-11T15:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42163"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:10:02","slug":"sas-unemployment-rate-rises-in-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-unemployment-rate-rises-in-second-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s unemployment rate rises in second quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Statistics South Africa (SA) said \u200bthe number of unemployed people increased to \u20608.481 million in April-June, compared to 8.137 in January to March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The official jobless rate has \u200bbeen above 30% for more than five years and is among the highest in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Job losses were \u200bbroad-based in April-June, with employment declining \u200bin seven of the 10 sectors tracked by Stats \u200cSA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The community and social services sector recorded the largest job losses in the second quarter, followed by mining, agriculture and manufacturing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Trade, construction and \u200bfinance sector \u200bsaw employment \u2060increases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">An expanded definition of unemployment, rose to 43.8% in the second \u200bquarter from 43.7% previously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Young people and \u200bBlack \u2060women remain the hardest hit by unemployment in SA, where the coalition government formed \u2060in \u200b2024 has struggled to boost \u200bjob creation despite economic reforms and modest growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39846,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-42163","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA unemployed people increased to \u20608.481 million in April-June","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42163","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\/42163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42164,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42163\/revisions\/42164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}