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Making headlines: Unemployment rate decreases to 32.6%, Santaco to approach court over latest wave of impoundments and, ANC Youth League says it will not apologise to Pravin Gordhan

 

Unemployment rate decreases to 32.6%

South Africa's unemployment rate decreased to 32.6% in the second quarter, from 32.9% in the first quarter, Statistics South Africa's data shows.

The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey shows that the number of employed persons increased by 154 000 to 16.3-million in the second quarter.

The number of unemployed persons decreased by 11 000 to 7.9-million.

However the youth remain vulnerable in the labour market, with the second-quarter survey showing that the total number of unemployed youth between the ages of 15 and 34 decreased by 131 000 to 4.7-million.

There was an increase of 105 000 in the number of employed youth to 5.7-million resulting in a 1.1 percentage point decrease in youth unemployment to 45.3% in the second quarter.

 

Santaco to approach court over latest wave of impoundments

The South African National Taxi Council is not happy about the latest impoundment of minibus taxis and has vowed to approach the courts to interdict the City of Cape Town.

Taxi officials under Santaco were on Monday locked in urgent talks after 14 taxis were impounded over the weekend by the City despite an agreement in place to end the impoundment of taxis for minor offences.

Santaco staged an eight-day strike earlier this month against the City impounding dozens of vehicles over a range of infractions, including number plates not being displayed, taxi operators claimed.

The strike resulted in five deaths.

Santaco secretary Ryno Saaiers said the impoundments on the weekend were under cases not covered under the agreement.

 

ANC Youth League says it will not apologise to Pravin Gordhan

The African National Congress Youth League secretary-general Mntuwoxolo Ngudle says the organisation "will never" apologise to Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.

He said the league believed Gordhan was asking it to abandon its political views on strengthening and not weakening State-owned enterprises.

The ANC Youth League refused to apologise for its views around State-owned entities and stressed that there must be no sale of State-owned entities.

On Monday, Gordhan issued a statement demanding that league president Collen Malatji apologise for accusing him of being intent on selling off State-owned enterprises. 

 

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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