South Africa's unemployment rate, already the highest in the world, rose to 32.1% in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to official government figures released on Tuesday.

PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa's official unemployment rate rose for the third quarter in a row, reaching 33.5% in April-June of this year, data from the statistics agency showed on Tuesday.

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PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa's official unemployment rate fell slightly in the fourth quarter of last year, helped by job gains in the finance and manufacturing sectors. The second quarterly ...

South Africa's unemployment rate rose in the fourth quarter of last year, bucking a trend where jobs tend to be added around the holiday season as a labour market recovery from the COVID-19 ...

The unemployment rate dropped to 32.1% in the three months through September, compared with 33.5% in the previous quarter, according to data released by Statistics South Africa in the capital ...

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