DA says SA’s central mission must be to get the economy growing at a significantly faster pace [SOUND]

# The DA says it is clear that South Africa’s jobs crisis is worsening, not improving, as economic reform is happening far too slowly to spur growth at the pace required to create jobs. The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey shows that the country’s official unemployment rate has increased by 0.9 percentage points from 32.7-percent in the first quarter of this year to 33.6-percent in the second quarter. DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis says economic growth needs to be the priority: