Youth unemployment; the number that hits hardest

South Africa’s unemployment rate may have eased to 31.4%… but the youth story is still brutal.

This is why we’re not celebrating: the “improvement” doesn’t land where it hurts most; in young lives waiting at the starting line.

Watch the full breakdown in today’s Number of the Day: https://www.enca.com/number-day-17-february-2026-314