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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

Panyaza Lesufi (African National Congress) has been Premier of Gauteng since 6 Oct 2022. In Q2 2026 the unemployment rate was 34.6% of the labour force, 0.9 percentage points higher than when Panyaza Lesufi took office in October 2022; South Africa's moved +0.7 percentage points over the same months. Among the 9 provinces with a year or more of figures, Gauteng ranks 1st on population growth and 6th on the fall in unemployment. On employment rate the two part most: −1.0 percentage point in Gauteng, +0.5 percentage points for South Africa. Under David Makhura (2014 to 2022) the unemployment rate rose 7.9 percentage points. Inflation: 4.3% on a year earlier in Sep 2026, −3.2 percentage points since day zero.

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