Editorial

11/10/2026

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 ...

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 ...

08/18/2026

7 min

Nearly half of SA youth not in work or training as NEET hits 45%

If you are between 15 and 34 and you are not currently working, studying, or in any form of training, the latest Stats SA data says you are not an outlier. According to figures from Statistics South Africa covering the second quarter of 2026, 45% ...

08/14/2026

7 min

SA unemployment climbs to 33.6% as 345,000 more lose work

South Africa shed 41,000 formal-sector jobs between April and June 2026, while 329,000 additional people entered the labour force over the same period. That widening gap between labour supply and quality job creation is the structural reality ...

08/12/2026

5 min

SA state CEO earns 93x lowest workers as pay gap widens

At the SA Civil Aviation Authority, the CEO earned an average of R9.7 million in 2024/25, while the 102 workers in the lowest salary band averaged R104,000 a year. That is a 93-to-1 pay ratio inside a single public-sector employer, according to a ...

07/29/2026

7 min

South Africa's draft EEA Code: what section 15A targets mean for your workplace

A draft Employment Equity Code, gazetted in the week before 26 July 2026 by Employment and Labour Minister Nomakhosazana Meth, is set to reshape how companies with more than 50 staff hire, promote and build their talent pipelines. The code ...

07/28/2026

6 min

BCEA threshold at R269,601: reclassification obligations HR leaders must address now

South Africa's Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997 (BCEA) earnings threshold moved to R269,601 per year on 1 May 2026, a 3% uplift that shifts the compliance boundary for a specific and often-overlooked segment of the workforce. The ...

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