75% of all new jobs in SA was created by the Western Cape
CAPE TOWN – The Democratic Alliance on said on Twitter on June 15 that the Western Cape contributed to 75% of all jobs in SA in the past year.
Business Tech then reported that this data has been verified by non profit fact checking group, Africa Check. This claim is reportedly based on Statistics SA’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey from January to March 2018.
“In the Western Cape, there were 123,000 more jobs in the first quarter of 2018 than there had been in the first quarter of 2017. This is 75% of the estimated 165,000 new jobs recorded for the whole country,” Africa Check said.
Source: iol.co.za
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