North West records almost 50% unemployment rate due to ANC’s bad economic policy and poor governance
30 July 2019
The Democratic Alliance (DA) notes the latest results of the unemployment figures released in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) by Statistics South Africa today. The current expanded unemployment figure for North West is recorded at 46.6%.
The QLFS shows that an additional 59 000 people lost their jobs during the second quarter. Unemployment grew across all sectors of the provincial economy.
This means almost half the population of working age do not have a job. More than 800 000 people in North West who are able to work, today remain unemployed without any prospects of finding a job anytime soon.
Economic conditions in South Africa are currently extremely dire and the DA sympathises with the residents of North West who have to live under ANC failures.