On 28 July 2020, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) published the Quarterly employment statistics (QES) survey results for the first quarter of 2020.\u00a0According to the survey, the formal non-agricultural sector shed 3 000 jobs\u00a0in the first quarter of 2020. This brings the total number of persons employed\u00a0in the formal non-agricultural sector in South Africa to 10,2 million. The\u00a0survey further shows that three of the eight industries (trade, construction\u00a0and manufacturing) reported a decrease quarter-on-quarter, while the\u00a0electricity industry reported no change.<\/p>\n
On a more positive note, however, the government has declared war on\u00a0unemployment and seeks to create jobs by doing the following: Reversing\u00a0spatial apartheid by building more homes near big cities where the work is;\u00a0by introducing a policy that ensures that graduates are hired without work\u00a0experience, by introducing skills programmes for young people to make
\nthem more employable; and by reducing the cost of data so that using the\u00a0internet to apply for jobs can be cheaper, making the internet more\u00a0accessible for the disenfranchised workers of South Africa.<\/p>\n
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