There have been more than 53 000 job losses in Mpumalanga between January and March this year. The province’s unemployment rate has increased to 36.3% from 32.3% in the previous quarter.

The expanded unemployment rate is now sitting at 49.6%.

Labour Federation Cosatu has called on government to develop an urgent jobs turn around strategy.

COSATU Provincial Secretary, Thabo Mokoena says, “We are saying that the government must create concrete, measurable measures to create employment and decent work for all. Government must create jobs for the youth through training programmes, internship programme, we need qualitative turn around approaches that can be used to ensure that we can address the challenges of unemplyment.”

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