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Employment and unemployment as measured by Stats SA's Quarterly Labour Force Survey, plus wages and labour policy.
The National Skills Fund has approved 43 months of funding for training in aircraft maintenance and wheel balancing, and part of the provider's fee is held back until results are met.
At the Durban Chamber's 170th dinner on Wednesday the president said eThekwini employment is up 90,000 in a year, six days before the 4 November election.
A contributor who loses a job can claim up to 12 months of benefits, worth between R41,189 and R67,455 in total on the Labour Minister's own examples.
The Department of Land Reform and Rural Development will spend R1.2 billion of the R2 billion this financial year, between R100 million and R170 million in each province.
That is 31 applicants for every post, with under three weeks of the recruitment drive still to run and the portal under strain.
A government report puts about 75,000 people in informal trade, in the metro with the lowest unemployment rate of the eight, 21.2%.
Every worker covered by the law must earn at least R30.23 for each ordinary hour from 1 March 2026, up R1.44 or 5.0% on a year earlier.
