City of Cape Town celebrates 69k new jobs created in Q4

The City of Cape Town is celebrating the 69,000 new jobs created in the metro in the last quarter of 2025.
 
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Tuesday released the national unemployment rate, which shows a drop of point 5% in the last quarter of 2025.

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Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said the metro now has a record-low unemployment rate of 19.8%.

"This brings employment in Cape Town to a record 1.9 million people now working in the Mother City, and it also means unemployment has dropped into the teens for the first time now."
 
Hill-Lewis said that while the 19% unemployment rate for Cape Town is still too high, the downward trend is encouraging.
 
"We are especially happy for anyone who has found a job for the first time in the last year, and can now provide meaningfully for their families."