Unemployment hits 39.3% in province, with 80,000 losing work in first quarter
More than 80,000 workers lost their jobs in the Eastern Cape in the first three months of 2025.
The jobs bloodbath has seen the unemployment rate reach a staggering 39.3% in the province, an increase of 2.7 percentage points from the 36.6% in the last three months of 2024…
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