Unemployment rate ‘gross indictment’ on ANC, says union
The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (Giwusa) says it's alarmed by the rise in the country's unemployment rate.
SA's unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage points to 32.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2023.
The figures, released by Stats SA on Tuesday, showed that 46,000 more people were without jobs.
It brings the total figure to 7.9 million.
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"These statistics are tearing apart the very fabric of society and heaping onto untenable situations characterised by high levels of crime and deepening poverty, all against the backdrop of unmitigated rise in the cost of living for the working class and the poor,” says the union's president, Mametlwe Sebei.
“The mass unemployment is a gross indictment on the failures of the ANC. It is a direct result of the catastrophic neo-liberal policies relentlessly pursued by this government since 1994."
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