Statisticians take pride in presenting dispassionate analysis of data. 

For SA’s own statistician-general, Risenga Maluleke, it must be difficult to put on a poker face when he tells reporters almost every quarter since he took over in 2018 that more and more South Africans are losing their jobs...

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