{"id":835,"date":"2025-02-25T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2025\/02\/25\/the-northern-cape-recorded-the-largest-decrease-in-unemployment-rate\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:51:29","slug":"the-northern-cape-recorded-the-largest-decrease-in-unemployment-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2025\/02\/25\/the-northern-cape-recorded-the-largest-decrease-in-unemployment-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Northern Cape recorded the largest decrease in unemployment rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-834\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/StatsArticle1.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left; width: 400px; height: 198px;\" width=\"1600\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/StatsArticle1.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/StatsArticle1-300x149.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/StatsArticle1-1024x508.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/StatsArticle1-768x381.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/StatsArticle1-1536x761.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/>The Northern Cape recorded the largest drop in unemployment in South Africa, with the official unemployment rate dropping from 30,4% to 27,4% in the Quarter 4:2024 alongside significant job gains in key sectors such as agriculture and finance.<\/p>\n<p>The Province saw an increase of 18 000 jobs between the third and fourth quarter of 2024, bringing the total number of employed people to 355 000. This reflects a 5.3% in employment quarter-on-quarter positioning the Northern Cape among the top provinces that recorded positive employment rate.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial government remains committed to working with the private sector to ensure that more jobs are created for the people of this Province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Cape recorded the largest drop in unemployment in South Africa, with the official unemployment rate dropping from 30,4% to 27,4% in the Quarter 4:2024 alongside significant job gains in key sectors such as agriculture and finance. The Province saw an increase of 18 000 jobs between the third and fourth quarter of 2024,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2025\/02\/25\/the-northern-cape-recorded-the-largest-decrease-in-unemployment-rate\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}