DA says the latest job numbers make stable local government more urgent [SOUND]

# The DA says South Africa’s latest jobs numbers are another reminder of the enormous task at hand, and the importance of the outcome of last week’s local government elections. The official unemployment rate ticked up by 0.1 percentage point to 33.7-percent in the third quarter of this year. According to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, the number of unemployed people has reached 8.6-million. The DA’s national spokesperson, Jan de Villiers, says that compared with a year ago, the country has 215-thousand fewer people in employment: