[TOP STORY] Risenga Maluleke's insights on rising SA unemployment

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‘On the unemployed side, in the first quarter we were sitting at 8.2 million unemployed people who are actively looking for employment. That number went up by 140 000 to 8.4 million,’ says the Statistician-General at StatsSA.

14 Aug 9AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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