In South Africa, access to these services is affected by factors such as ethnicity, including gender, the composition of households, taking account of the number of children in the household, the education level of parents, the gender and age of the person heading the household, orphan status, and where the household resides.
Yet during the past 10 years, we haven’t had a single month with a decline in the overall number of jobs. I should note that I would not necessarily consider a single month of job losses as saying much about the direction of the economy.