What does the evidence show?
Stats SA's surveys show 418,000 more residents with jobs, about 49.5% of the eight metros' net rise.
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Over the five years of this local government term, Cape Town has added 418,000 new jobs.
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418,000
more Cape Town residents had jobs from early 2022 to mid-2026, Stats SA found.
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