Economic

11/11/2026

Minimum wage in South Africa 2027

South Africa's national minimum wage sits at R30.23 per ordinary hour right now, and that number will not change until the Minister of Employment and Labour publishes a new Government Gazette notice, expected some time in February 2027. The ...

11/11/2026

7 min

Christmas and holiday messages for colleagues, managers and the team: examples you can copy

In South African workplaces, the year-end greeting travels by multiple channels at once: a card circulated round the open-plan office, a voice note on WhatsApp, a quick line on Teams or Slack before the out-of-office switches on, or a brief ...

11/10/2026

6 min

Stats SA Q3 QLFS arrives as youth joblessness holds near 47.4%

You finished your studies, polished your CV and started applying. Months later, the replies are thinner than you expected, the interviews fewer, and every rejection email reads like the last. If you are a young job-seeker in South Africa right ...

11/03/2026

7 min

PMBEJD data: South Africa's NMW Act wage floor cannot cover the October food basket

The October 2026 Household Affordability Index published by the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group (PMBEJD) places a number on what many low-income workers in South Africa already feel: a full month of work at the statutory ...

10/30/2026

9 min

Public Holidays in South Africa 2027: Official Dates and Long Weekends

Planning leave for 2027 is worth doing now. South Africa's public holiday dates are locked in Schedule 1 of the Public Holidays Act 36 of 1994, so the picture is already clear, and the late-March cluster alone converts three leave days into a ...

10/05/2026

6 min

Parental leave in SA: UIF and payroll questions for employers

The Constitutional Court's judgment in Van Wyk and Others v Minister of Employment and Labour [2025] ZACC 20, handed down on 3 October 2025, broke decisively with the fragmented parental leave structure that had governed South African ...

09/23/2026

8 min

South Africa public holidays 2026: dates and best bridge days

South Africa's 2026 public holiday calendar is more generous than most years, and there are still four working-day holidays ahead for anyone who has not yet mapped out the final quarter. The standard statutory tally under the Public Holidays Act ...

09/09/2026

8 min

Two-pot year two: Discovery data links rising withdrawals to mental health strain

Two years after the two-pot retirement system took effect on 1 September 2024, the headline numbers offer a measure of comfort: two-thirds of new contributions are locked into the retirement pot until later life, and 54% of Discovery retirement ...

09/09/2026

8 min

Stats SA Q2 data: 33.6% unemployment and what it means for South African workers and HR teams

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) released its second-quarter national accounts on Tuesday, confirming GDP contracted by 0.2% between April and June 2026, reversing the 0.4% expansion recorded in Q1 and marking the country's first quarterly ...

08/24/2026

6 min

National Minimum Wage Commission 2027 review: the R15,000 gap that legal compliance alone cannot close

South Africa's statutory minimum wage stands at R30.23 an hour in 2026, a rate set under the National Minimum Wage Act 9 of 2018, which translates to roughly R4,800 a month for a full-time worker. The Living Wage South Africa Network, chaired by ...

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