September 30, 2020

Andrew Campbell 

During the lockdown of coronavirus, South Africa lost around 2.2 million jobs in the second quarter of 2020, according to the Statistics South Africa. 

This was one of the biggest declines in job numbers since 2008. Based on the research of Statistics South Africa, the restrictions of coronavirus were the major reason to cause the fall of job numbers. 

South Africa was now faced with the downturn of economy. In the second quarter of 2020, about 2.2 million people lost their jobs based on the survey of the Quarterly Labor Force.  

President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, stated that South Africans must unite together to assist the recovery of labor market. The government of South Africa is implementing the relief measure to cope with the job crisis following the coronavirus. The authority expected to have a critical plan to decrease unemployment rate. 

In addition to the relief measure, the government also had the broad agreement to cooperate with the National Economic Development and Labor Council to executive major action to fix the downturn of economy. Currently, the Cabinet is finalizing this broad agreement.

Mr. Ramaphosa attempted to adopt all possible solutions to recover the economy and he will soon implement the Presidential Employment Stimulus to quickly boost public and social employment and provide sufficient job protection in various ways. 

Many countries have experienced the result following the lockdown of coronavirus. In the case of South Africa, problems which happen in the job market might happen before the pandemic. 

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