South Africa'S Unemployment Rate 2025. Cape town, south africa (ap) — south africa’s unemployment rate, already the highest in the world, rose to 32.1% in.  — south africa’s official unemployment rate of 33% is the highest in the world, and economists say it’s even higher at 42% if you count those who have given up.

 — south africa’s governing african national congress lost its parliamentary majority of 30 years, in the country’s most sweeping political shift since the end of the.  — in the second quarter of 2025, unemployment climbed to 33.5% and, when using statistics south africa’s expanded definition, which includes discouraged job.