A total of 42 000 new formal jobs were created in the fourth quarter last year outside the agricultural sector.
 
The figures released by Statistics South Africa (STATS SA) put the number of employed individuals at almost nine million.
 
The stats indicates that South Africa is still moving at a snail’s pace in creating new jobs adding that majority of the jobs are not sustainable.
 
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