At the end of the third quarter last year, South Africa recorded a high unemployment rate of 27.5%. A young, unemployed man crosses a busy street on 12th Avenue. Mafuya’s institution creates a database of unemployed youth within the community with the sole purpose of collaborating with companies that are looking to hire. With an unemployment rate of 36.6%, the Free State has the highest provincial unemployment rate according to StatsSA, in 2018. The latest figures record that the number of unemployed people in South Africa grew by 127,000 from the 6.08 million in the previous quarter.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 20, 2019 07:07 UTC