South Africa’s unemployment rate hit a new record high of 34.9% in the third quarter of 2021 from 34.4% in the second quarter, the statistics agency said on Tuesday.
Statistics South Africa said the number of unemployed totalled 7.643-million people in the three months to the end of September, compared with 7.826-million people, in the previous three months.
The South African economy has long suffered from high levels of joblessness, contributing to poverty and inequality that persist nearly three decades.
