International South Africa Labour Market
South Africa's unemployment rose 114,000 in a year. One province supplied 263,000 of it, and Stats SA's own significance table scores the national figure p=0,50 and that province p=0,00
South Africa's unemployment rose 114,000 year-on-year in Q2 2026. Stats SA's own provincial appendix puts 263,000 of that in the Eastern Cape alone, and its significance table scores the national figure p=0,50 against the province's p=0,00.
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