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Although South Africa’s unemployment rate decreased by 0.5 percentage points in the last quarter of 2025, the country still has 7.8 million unemployed people and faces a significant skills shortage.
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has welcomed the latest labour data showing that the Western Cape now has the lowest unemployment rate in the country. The latest Statistics South Africa Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), released on Tuesday, indicates that the province’s unemployment rate has declined to 18.1%, marking a five-year low. Sustained improvement According to…
South Africa’s unemployment rate has dropped by 0.5 percentage points in the final quarter of 2025, but the numbers are still sitting at crisis levels—especially for the youth.
South Africa’s official unemployment rate of 31.9% is five times higher than the average of the other G20 countries.