Overview
- The number of jobseekers with no activity rose 1.6% from Q2 and 7.6% year-on-year, reaching 3.26 million in category A and nearly 5.7 million across categories A, B and C.
- The published totals include automatic registrations of RSA recipients and youths in insertion pathways; excluding these additions, the rise would have been 0.7% quarter-on-quarter and 6.3% year-on-year.
- A June overhaul of the sanctions regime that prioritizes suspension-remobilization over removals reduced radiations and lifted recorded unemployment.
- Dares estimates that without the June decree, Q3 registrants would have fallen by about 1% in category A and by 0.3% across A, B and C.
- The Ministry of Labour published the figures on Tuesday, Oct. 28, and the government described the economic situation as deteriorating.