Employment & labour minister Thulas Nxesi has called for broader co-operation between provincial and national government departments to arrest the unemployment scourge in the country.                  

SA has a high unemployment rate, which in the first quarter rose to 32.9% from 32.7% previously. Stats SA data shows the number of unemployed South Africans rose by 179,000 to 7.9-million...

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