Labour & Economy
What Dipuo is askingWho gets to work, who is left behind, and what does economic policy look like from the lives it is meant to change?
1 analysis · 1 Signal Post · 6 figures · 1 on the radar
Analyses
Signal Posts
Figures
- 33.6% Official unemployment rate in the second quarter of 2026, up from 32.7%
- 46.3% Composite labour underutilisation rate, which includes discouraged…
- 8.5M People unemployed under the official definition, up 345,000 from the first…
- 55,719 Homeless people counted in the 2022 census, more than four times the 13,135…
- 54% Of homeless people gave unemployment as the main reason for their homelessness
- 20.1% Of counted homeless people were living in shelters