Eighteen thousand jobs were created in South Africa's formal non-agricultural business sector between September and December 2009, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) announced in Pretoria on Tuesday.

Reporting on its December 2009 Quarterly Employment Statistics, Stats SA said the survey had shown that the number of people employed in the formal non-agricultural sector of the country's economy increased by about 18 000 (or +0.2%) from an estimated 8 143 000 employees to an estimated 8 161 000 employees.

This is an improvement from the figures for the second quarter of 2009, when South Africa's formal job losses totalled 98 000.

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