South Africa’s unemployment ticked up to 33.7% in the third quarter of the year from 33.6% in the second, with private households, agriculture and construction shedding the most jobs, the country’s statistics agency said on Tuesday. In its latest quarterly labour force survey (QLFS), covering the period July to September, Stats South Africa said the working-age population grew by 117,000 or 0.3%, while the number of employed individuals was up 101,000 to 16.8-million and the number of those without jobs grew by 97,000 to reach 8.6-million. Consequently, the labour force increased by 198,000 or 0.8% between the second and third quarters. Youth unemployment still far outpaced the national rate, although it edged 0.1 percentage point lower to 47.
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