Stats SA confirms record unemployment rate

After a delay of more than a month, Statistics South Africa finally released the latest unemployment data, which showed a record jobless rate.  The official unemployment rate increased by 0.4 of a percentage point to 35.3% in the fourth quarter of 2021 - the highest since the start of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) in 2008.

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