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Stats SA: Almost 70% of black children live without biological dads at home
The report revealed that only 31.7% of black children stayed with their biological fathers, compared to 51.3% of coloured children, 86.1% of Indian/Asian...
Earlier on Tuesday, Stats SA revealed that the joblessness crisis in the country was worsening as the expanded definition of unemployment now stands at over eleven million people.
Stats SA on Tuesday announced that South Africa’s unemployment rate increased to 32.5% in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to the third quarter. Eyewitness News unpacks the statistics.
Postponing the census was not an option that statistician general Risenga Maluleke even wanted to contemplate at this point.
The decline in manufacturing production wasn’t unexpected given the difficult economic conditions that underpinned the year.
Four out of every 10 South Africans who should be in work remain jobless and this year more than two million jobs were wiped out.
Most job losses were reported in business services, followed by trade with 162,000 job losses as compared to the third quarter in 2019.
However, there was an increase of 75,000 jobs when compared to the second quarter of this year, when the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic were harsher.
The figures show that gross domestic product grew between July and September by a seasonally adjusted, annualised 66.1%, or by 13.5% on quarter two, when the hard lockdown put the brakes on economic activity.
Stats SA said that gross domestic product grew by an annualised rate of 66.1%.
Africa Check takes a closer look at the claim made by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni that close to 100% of restaurant workers in South Africa are foreign.
The gross domestic product (GDP) figures for the third quarter of 2020 revealed that the South African economy grew by an annualised rate of 66.1% in the third quarter – or 13.5% quarter on quarter.
Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke has released the GDP results for the third quarter of 2020.
Africa Check takes a closer look at this recent claim by South African politician and businessperson Herman Mashaba.
The price increases are still within targets set by the South African Reserve Bank, which aims to have the inflation rate between 3% and 6%.
While the country’s working-age population continued to grow, increasing by 585,000 or 1.5% in the third quarter, the job market continued to contract.
Stats SA announced on Thursday that the unemployment rate was at a record high of 30.8%.
A study conducted by the NDA and the University of Johannesburg has found that policy documents intended to eradicate poverty were not in short supply.
The president was responding to the data released by Stats SA, which revealed that South Africa's unemployment rate fell to 23.3% in the second quarter from 30.1% in the first quarter due to fewer people looking for work amid the nation's strict coronavirus lockdown.