The official unemployment rate (Q4 2024) was 31.9%, which refers to those actively seeking work. The expanded rate, which includes discouraged job seekers, was 41.9%.

A young man showed how he graduated and revealed the job he was doing in a TikTok video that shocked South Africans. The clip ...

The result is always the same – the head of Stats SA comes out all guns blazing to prove the statistical validity of his team’s work. The most recent debate around Stats SA’s figures erupted when ...

It makes no sense that Zimbabwe claims an unemployment rate of around 8%, a quarter of that of SA, when it supposedly uses the same ILO methodology used by Stats SA. In other words, you are considered ...

South Africa is considering developing a statistical register for small-scale and informal businesses, amid an ongoing debate about the methodology used to compile the country’s labour statistics.

The CEO of Capitec does not think Statistics SA considers informal employment sufficiently when calculating the unemployment ...

Treasury has not specified which projects the World Bank loan will fund, but says the financing plan includes an interest grace period.

Numsa warns that replacing these jobs will be difficult, as Eastern Cape is already burdened with an unemployment rate soaring above 41%.

Take home pay in South Africa declined for the third consecutive month, and alarm bells are ringing over a huge petrol price hike coming in July.

Trump set to meet South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as U.S.-South Africa ties face scrutiny over foreign policy, economic stagnation and controversial land expropriation issues.

The unprecedented rise in police recruitment applications raises urgent questions about youth unemployment in South Africa.

Auto and agriculture sectors face steep losses under new U.S. trade measures • U.S. to apply 30% tariffs on South African imports starting August 1, 2025 • Unemployment already near 43% when including ...