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6 African National Congress1 ActionSA1 Democratic Alliance 6 African National Congress1 ActionSA1 Democratic Alliance Nasiphi Moya (ActionSA) has been Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane since 9 Oct 2024. Unemployment rate: 34.2% of the labour force in Q2 2026, 0.3 percentage points higher than when Nasiphi Moya took office in October 2024; Gauteng's moved +0.6 percentage points over the same months. On the fall in unemployment Pretoria is 4th of the 8 cities, on jobs growth 7th. The employment rate moved −3.1 percentage points in Pretoria against −0.6 percentage points for Gauteng. Under Cilliers Brink (2023 to 2024) the unemployment rate fell 0.8 percentage points.
The president, premiers and mayors of South Africa
The president
- South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa
Premiers
- Eastern Cape Oscar Mabuyane
- Free State Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae
- Gauteng Panyaza Lesufi
- KwaZulu-Natal Thami Ntuli
- Limpopo Phophi Ramathuba
- Mpumalanga Mandla Ndlovu
- North West Lazarus Mokgosi
- Northern Cape Zamani Saul
- Western Cape Alan Winde
Mayors in Gauteng
- Ekurhuleni Nkosindiphile Xhakaza
- Johannesburg Dada Morero
- Pretoria Nasiphi Moya
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