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7 African National Congress1 Democratic Alliance1 Inkatha Freedom Party
Sources: Statistics South Africa (Quarterly Labour Force Survey, consumer price index, mid-year population estimates, Quarterly Employment Statistics; GDP and the national CPI via the IMF), South African Reserve Bank, BIS, World Bank, Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons. CreditsPrivacy

Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae (African National Congress) has been Premier of the Free State since 14 Jun 2024. The unemployment rate stood at 37.3% of the labour force in Q2 2026, 0.7 percentage points lower than when Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae took office in June 2024, while South Africa's rose 0.7 percentage points. On the employment rate Free State is 1st of the 9 provinces, on population growth 8th. The widest gap with South Africa is in people employed: +1.6% a year against −0.0%. Over Mxolisi Dukwana's tenure, 2023 to 2024, people employed dropped 5.3% a year. Inflation is 4.5% on a year earlier (Sep 2026), 0.6 percentage points below its level at day zero.

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