by jade@groundedmedia.co.za | May 8, 2025 | Featured, The Jobs Fund
The Jobs Fund, is one of the largest challenge funds globally and is now taking applications in its 12th funding round. Since its launch in 2011, the Jobs Fund through its 11 Funding rounds has catalysed innovative job creation interventions creating 210,719 permanent...
by jade@groundedmedia.co.za | Mar 26, 2021 | Covid-19 Country Report
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), in partnership with GTAC and the National Research Foundation (NRF) is working with South Africa’s top academics to record, chronicle, analyse and assess the measures Government, and its partners, have...
by jade@groundedmedia.co.za | Feb 26, 2021 | Government News, Industry News
In the fourth quarter of 2020 the number of employed people increased by 333 000 from the previous quarter, to 15.0 million. The official unemployment rate, which stood at 30.8% in Q3 2020, increased by 1.7 percentage points to 32.5% in Q4 2020, which is the highest...
by jade@groundedmedia.co.za | Feb 12, 2021 | Industry News
NIDS-CRAM will launch the results of the Third Wave Survey on 17 February at 10:00. The latest results report changes in employment and child hunger over the second half of 2020. This includes some remarkable findings related to the jobs recovery between June and...
