{"id":895065,"date":"2026-03-28T06:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/job-stats-out-today-can-sa-turn-the-unemployment-tide\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:23:36","slug":"job-stats-out-today-can-sa-turn-the-unemployment-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/job-stats-out-today-can-sa-turn-the-unemployment-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Job stats out today: Can SA turn the unemployment tide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Unemployment figures are in the spotlight today as new job stats are set to be released. In the third quarter of 2025, roughly eight million South Africans were officially unemployed, representing a 31.9 perent jobless rate, according to Statistics South Africa. Youth unemployment remains particularly alarming, with 62.4 percent of 15- to 24-year-olds<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/business-top-stories\/job-stats-out-today-can-sa-turn-unemployment-tide\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n eNCA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Unemployment figures are in the spotlight today as new job stats are set to be released. In the third quarter of 2025, roughly eight million South Africans were officially unemployed, representing a 31.9 perent jobless rate, according to Statistics South Africa. Youth unemployment remains particularly alarming, with 62.4 percent of 15- to 24-year-olds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":895066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,26314,23644],"tags":[11374,18747],"class_list":{"0":"post-895065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"category-stats","9":"category-unemployment","10":"tag-stats","11":"tag-unemployment"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}