The star Online
Friday, November 24, 2006
While employment is still growing in South Africa, it is not as strong as the 30 000 jobs created each month last year.
"No matter which data set you look at, the fact is that employment is still growing in South Africa Â… but we're off target for the government's goal of halving unemployment by 2014," Mike Schussler, economist for stockbroking firm T-Sec, said yesterday.
He was speaking at the release of the fourth annual South African employment report, commissioned by trade union UASA.
According to the report, about one in six South Africans have created their own jobs. One in four white males has done so. Black females came second in the self-employed category, but this was largely in the informal sector
In a separate survey of SA's porous borders, the report revealed that the country deported 209 988 illegal immigrants last year.
South Africa was found to be more xenophobic than Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Swaziland.
A quarter of South Africa's population would "just plain prohibit" aliens from entering the country, said Schussler, quoting a recent Markinor survey.