(South Africa’s unemployment rate in the third quarter of 2024 was 32.1% ... Despite post-apartheid progress, 80% of Grade 4 ...

Nel said: “South Africa’s unemployment rate remained far too high and has not declined sufficiently from the pandemic peak of 35.3% which was reached in the fourth quarter of 2021.

South Africa faces a crisis that is described as a “ticking time bomb” by a macroeconomist at Rand Merchant Bank.

Youth Unemployment Rate in South Africa averaged 56.23 percent from 2013 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 66.50 percent in the third quarter of 2021 and a record low of 48.80 percent in ...