AGRICULTURAL NEWS - Stats SA said in its fourth-quarter labour force survey on 13 February that South Africa’s overall unemployment rate had dropped one percentage point – to 26,7% – from the same time in 2016.
This meant that about 16,1 million people between the ages of 15 and 64 had jobs at the end of last year.
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The survey revealed that agriculture had added 39 000 jobs in the last three months of 2017.
This represented an employment increase of nearly 5% (4,8%) and brought the total number of jobs in the sector to 849 000.
