“I was earning less and not growing. And the regulatory body that we pay R3,200 per year to for membership was not standing up for us. I earned R23k and I was with the company for five years and I felt exploited. We had a formal conversation about the money issues and nothing was done. The salary was not enough and it didn’t seem like things will change.
“One time I had to kick a guy off the site and he came at me wielding a knife. A lot of companies don’t pay any more, when you look at jobs online you see that they are no better offers. Sometimes they will demand at least five years’ experience and then they pay you R15k. The decrease from 9,991 000 in December to 9,970 000 in March was largely due to decreases in trade, which lost 36,000 jobs, business services, which lost 32,000 jobs, transport, which lost 2,000 jobs, and construction, which also lost 2,000 jobs.