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South Africa unemployment rises as authorities rush vaccinations

South Africa unemployment rises as authorities rush vaccinations
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Unemployment Rise Leaves Nearly A Third Out Of Work In South Africa

Channels Television   Updated February 23, 2021 Jetro Gonese and his braille typewriter. South Africa’s anti-coronavirus lockdown has had a devastating impact on the visually impaired Luca Sola AFP     South African unemployment reached 32.5 percent of the workforce between October and December 2020, the national statistics agency said Tuesday, the highest level since record-keeping began in 2008. The number of unemployed people increased “by 701,000 to 7.2 million compared to the third quarter of 2020,” a Stats SA statement said. “The movement… resulted in a significant increase of 1.7 percentage points in the official unemployment rate to 32.5 percent,” it added. South Africa, the continent’s most industrialised economy, was already in recession when the coronavirus pandemic hit last March.

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