WATCH: Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis celebrates 86k new jobs
Hill-Lewis took to Instagram to share his city’s employment stats.
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis on Kfm 94.5 | 13 July 2022 | Photographed by Ruth Smith (@ruthsmithcreates)
CapeTalk’s Clarence Ford speaks with Barbara Friedman about this and other stories trending online.
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The latest Statistics SA employment report shows positive growth for Cape Town in the last year.
In the past year, unemployment dropped by two percentage points and 86,000 new jobs were created.
Hill-Lewis took to Instagram to share the good news.
“Everything we do here is to get this economy growing faster, to get more Capetonians into work.”
– Geordin Hill Lewis, Mayor - Cape Town
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Cape Town is doing far better than the rest of South Africa when it comes to jobs, with the country recording an unemployment rate of 32.9%.
“It is the key. We have to create jobs.”
– Barbara Friedman
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