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Mandla Ndlovu (African National Congress) has been Premier of Mpumalanga since 14 Jun 2024. Unemployment rate: 36.6% of the labour force in Q2 2026, 0.4 percentage points higher than when Mandla Ndlovu took office in June 2024, while South Africa's rose 0.7 percentage points. On the employment rate Mpumalanga is 3rd of the 9 provinces, on the fall in unemployment 5th. The widest gap with South Africa is in people employed: +1.0% a year against −0.0%; the gap was widest in Q2 2024, −4.0% against −0.6%. Over Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane's tenure, 2018 to 2024, people employed edged up 0.0% a year. Inflation: 4.0% on a year earlier in Sep 2026, −1.0 percentage point since day zero.

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