# South Africa’s mining production rose by two-percent in June compared to the same month last year, driven mainly by increases in platinum group metals, coal, and chromium ore. However, mineral sales fell by 14-percent year-on-year in June, mainly due to sharp declines in gold, manganese, and coal sales. Statistics South Africa’s Juan-Pierre Terblanche says […]
# Brittanje se werkloosheidsyfer bly op ‘n vierjaar-hoogtepunt. Werksgeleenthede het verminder in ‘n tydperk waarin ‘n belastingverhoging in die Verenigde Koninkryk en nuwe Amerikaanse tariewe in werking getree het. Die Kantoor van Nasionale Statistiek sê werkloosheid was op 4,7-persent vir die drie maande tot einde Junie, onveranderd teenoor die periode van Maart tot Mei. ‘n […]
# Statistieke SA het aangekondig dat 140-duisend mense in die tweede kwartaal vanjaar hul werk verloor het. Volgens die Arbeidsmagopname was daar ook ‘n toename van 19-duisend in die aantal mense wat werk. As gevolg van die veranderings in indiensneming en werkloosheid het die amptelike werkloosheidsyfer met 0,3 van ‘n persentasiepunt tot 33,2-persent gestyg. Werksgeleenthede […]
# Statistics SA has announced that 140-thousand people lost their jobs in the second quarter of this year. According to the Labour Force Survey there was also an increase of 19-thousand in the number of employed people. The changes in employment and unemployment resulted in the official unemployment rate increasing by 0.3 of a percentage […]
# Minister of Higher Education and Training, Buti Manamela, has vowed to strengthen oversight of Sector Education and Training Authorities to improve the quality of training and ensure they deliver measurable results. This after president Cyril Ramaphosa removed the previous minister, Nobuhle Nkabane, from the role over the SETA board chairpersons scandal. In a media […]
# Die minister van Landbou, John Steenhuisen, waarsku dat dit nadelig sal wees vir albei lande as Suid-Afrikaanse toegang tot Amerikaanse markte beperk moet word nadat die VSA verlede week eensydige tariewe van 30-persent op Suid-Afrikaanse uitvoere ingestel het. Hy sê die tariewe is nie net van toepassing op Suid-Afrika nie, maar het ‘n uitwerking […]
# Die minister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Buti Manamela, sê die regering sal ‘n sterk program van stapel stuur om die naskoolse onderwys- en opleidingsektor te hervorm. Die plan fokus op ses hoofdoelwitte en vyf sleutelareas, en begin met projekte soos Vaardighede tot Werkoorskakeling, Loopbaankeuses, en Geletterdheid vir Bemagtiging. Manamela het aan die media […]
# Die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau, sê die regering sal toegewese infrastruktuur ontplooi vir markuitbreiding. Dit sluit in handels- en landbou-attachés, verhoogde sertifiseringsvermoë van uitvoere en ‘n gesamentlike poging om biosekerheidstandaarde te belyn met die vereistes van hierdie nuwe markte. Tau het op ‘n nuuskonferensie oor Amerikaanse tariewe gesê ‘n hoëvlak-onderhandelingspan […]
# Britain’s unemployment rate remained at a four-year high, as job vacancies shrank during a period that included a United Kingdom tax hike and US tariffs kicking in. The Office for National Statistics says unemployment was at 4.7-percent in the three months to the end of June. It was unchanged from the March to May […]
