SOUTH Africa's unemployment rate jumped to a record high in the fourth quarter of last year, the statistics agency said yesterday, as the economy was further battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistics South Africa said the unemployment rate stood at 32.5% in the October-December quarter, meaning 7.2 million people were unemployed, up from 30.8% in the previous three months. The figure was the highest since the survey began in 2008. "We are seeing that the proportion of people of working age, versus the proportion of those that are employed, is widening, meaning the market is not creating sufficient jobs to…