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‘Multiple Intersecting Structural Barriers’: South Africa’s Deepening Unemployment Crisis | SA News

According to Statistics South Africa’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for Q1 2025, youth unemployment remains alarmingly high. The number of unemployed youth surged by 151,000 to 4.8 million, while employed youth dropped by 153,000 to 5.7 million. This significant shift pushed the youth unemployment rate up from 44.6% in Q4 2024 to 46.1% in Q1 2025.

“Broadly speaking, young South Africans are let down by inadequate schooling, which fails to prepare them properly for success at university, or in the workplace, and by the absence of job opportunities in an almost stagnant economy hobbled by bad policy,” says Michael Morris, head of media at the South African Institute of…

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