{"id":12741,"date":"2025-06-25T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12741\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:56:09","slug":"sa-likely-to-continue-seeing-poor-employment-figures-as-economic-growth-remains-muted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12741\/","title":{"rendered":"SA likely to continue seeing poor employment figures as economic growth remains muted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Stats SA said that the country was likely to continue seeing poor employment numbers as economic growth remains muted.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-four thousand jobs have been lost in the first quarter of this year compared to the final quarter of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Industries such as trade, community services and mining took the hardest knock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewn.co.za\/2025\/06\/24\/stats-sa-links-first-quarter-job-losses-to-muted-economic-growth\" target=\"_blank\">Stats SA links first quarter job losses to muted economic growth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewn.co.za\/2025\/06\/24\/sa-bleeds-74k-jobs-in-first-quarter-of-2025\" target=\"_blank\">SA economy bleeds 74k jobs in first quarter of 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this time last year, 95,000 more jobs were reported in the South African economy.<\/p>\n<p>Stats SA said that the majority of the jobs lost year-on-year were full-time employment and were directly linked to economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Acting deputy director-general for population and social statistics, Solly Molayi:\u00a0&#8220;When the economy is growing and sectors are growing, chances are that there will be more of us employed in those particular sectors. I mean, look at trade. It only grew by 0.5 percent in quarter,&#8221; said Molayi.<\/p>\n<p>On the brighter side, however, Molayi said that some industries had recovered from the effects of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have now surpassed the pre-COVID-19 numbers, which means we have increased in terms of employment, but some industries that have not surpassed those levels, like transport and construction,&#8221; said Maloyi.<\/p>\n<p>This recovery may be short-lived, however, as Molayi said that job losses may persist as economic growth remains below 1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Stats SA said that the country was likely to continue seeing poor employment numbers as economic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,13315,13316,13320,13318,13317,420,105,50,13319,13323,13322,13321,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-12741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ewn","10":"tag-ewn-news","11":"tag-ewn-south-africa","12":"tag-eye-witness-news","13":"tag-eyewitness-news","14":"tag-jobs","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-news-today","18":"tag-prime-media-plus","19":"tag-primedia-plus","20":"tag-primedia","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114742465857884778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}