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7 African National Congress1 Democratic Alliance1 Inkatha Freedom Party
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Zamani Saul (African National Congress) has been Premier of the Northern Cape since 22 May 2019. In Q2 2026 the unemployment rate was 28.7% of the labour force, 2.7 percentage points higher than when Zamani Saul took office in May 2019; South Africa's moved +6.0 percentage points over the same months. On population growth Northern Cape is 5th of the 9 provinces, on the fall in unemployment 7th. Over the same months South Africa's people employed edged up 0.4% a year; Northern Cape's edged down 0.5%; the gap was widest in Q2 2021, −20.2% against −8.3%. Over Sylvia Lucas's tenure, 2013 to 2019, the unemployment rate moved −3.3 percentage points. Inflation: 4.0% on a year earlier in Sep 2026, −0.1 percentage points since day zero.

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