Press Release:23 March 2010, Ian Ollis
The Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) for December 2009 released today by StatsSA show that 351 000 jobs were lost between December 2008 and 2009. This is a severe indictment of ANC economic policy geared towards creating “decent jobs” – as combined losses in manufacturing and construction sums up to 152 000 – or 43.3% of jobs lost. (see table below)

 

The construction industry has suffered the biggest reduction in the number of employees ...

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