# Western Cape premier Alan Winde says efforts to create jobs in the province continue to show encouraging results. The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey data for the province shows that the region’s unemployment rate has dropped to 19.4-percent in quarter three of this year, down from 19.5-percent in the previous quarter. This is well below the national unemployment rate of 33.7-percent. Winde says the Western Cape is home to 69-thousand more jobs than it was a year ago:
Western Cape is home to 69,000 more jobs than it was a year ago [SOUND]
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