Tag: Unemployment
Leading beauty brand launches initiative to tackle female unemployment in SA
With South Africa’s unemployment rate recently increasing to 29%*, leading direct-selling beauty brand - Avon Justine - today announced the launch of its initiative...
With high unemployment, tourism entrepreneurship is the way to go
A report released by Airbnb last September found that the guest activity on the platform in South Africa supported more than 22 000 new...
Cape Town’s employment levels rise
Cape Town’s unemployment rate has dropped by 2.1%, while the national unemployment rate has increased to 27.5%. This makes it the ninth consecutive quarter...
SA lost 69 000 jobs in second quarter – Stats SA
Employment in SA's non-agricultural formal sector dropped by 69 000 between March and June 2018, Statistics SA announced on Wednesday in its latest Quarterly Employment...
Engen helps tackle unemployment through Learnership programme
In response to increasing unemployment rates in South Africa, Engen are running various campaigns to recruit candidates for learnerships, which are based on business and industry needs.
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Why are so many of South Africa’s youth unemployed?
The reasons for the high level of youth unemployment have been discussed ad nausea, and, of course, the downgrade of South Africa’s sovereign credit...
Youth vulnerable as unemployment stays at highest rate since 2003
Unemployment in the second quarter of 2017 stayed steady at 27.7% from the previous quarter, but declined by 1.1 percentage point year-on-year, Statistics South...