# The Metal Mining and Allied Workers Union of South Africa has condemned the latest unemployment statistics for the first quarter of 2025. The union’s spokesperson, Mogoshadi Maserumule, says with the official unemployment rate at 32.9-percent and over 8.2-million people jobless, this crisis is not a tragedy. She says this is a predictable outcome of a capitalist system that thrives on inequality, exploitation, and mass unemployment:
MMAWUSA condemns deepening unemployment crisis [SOUND]
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