Lerato Mbhiza
Black African women fare even worse with an unemployment rate of 39,8% in Q2:2023, which is higher than the national average and other population groups, according to Statistics South Africa.
Stats SA released its unemployment rate figures for the 2nd Quarter of 2023, which showed a slight decline to 32.6% from the 32.9% recorded in the 1st Quarter. The number of unemployed people also declined slightly, coming in at 7 921 000, it said.
However, according to Stats SA not only are Black African women battling to find employment, those who are employed are more likely to work in low-paying jobs in vulnerable conditions, and there is a slow improvement forecast for the future (ILO,2017).
According to the ILO, “vulnerable employment is a combination of ‘own account work’ and ‘contributing family work’ or unpaid household work, both defined as employment statuses that are associated with ‘low levels of
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