GOOD Party says the increasing number of active South African jobseekers is a national crisis [SOUND]

# The GOOD Party says the increasing number of active South Africans jobseekers to more than 8.1 million adults, together with sustained slow economic growth, is a national crisis. According to the unemployment numbers for the first quarter of the year released by Statistics SA, the expanded unemployment rate rose 1.6-percent to 43.7-percent. GOOD’s secretary general, Brett Herron, says this national crisis is being hopelessly inadequately addressed by the 370-rand Social Relief of Distress Grant: