Eastern Cape sheds 18,000jobs in fourth quarter
‘My hope of ever finding work is killing me’
The Eastern Cape economy is bleeding jobs, with the unemployment rate climbing three percentage points to 39.5% between October and December.
Over that period, there were 18,000 more unemployed people in the province — adding to the 45,000 who lost their jobs in the quarter before...
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