This short brief looks at the recent employment
trend in the Western Cape Agricultural
Sector using the Quarterly Labour Force
Surveys (QLFS) administered by Statistics
South Africa (Stats SA, 2016). The analysis
indicates a significant recovery following
the decline in employment immediately after
the global recession of 2008 and 2009,
as well as significant progress towards important
national development goals.
South Africa’s National Development
Plan (NDP), released in 2011, lays out the
country’s vision for where it wants to be
by 2030. In the plan, South Africa in 2030
is more equitable and a country where the
lives of everyone have been improved. A
key component of this vision is the creation
of 11 million new jobs in the economy, 1 million
of which are targeted to come from the
country’s agricultural sector (NPC, 2011)