As the government bails out state-owned entities, it is leaving a hole in the budget of the agency tasked with telling us what South Africa looks like — one that is crucial to government decisions
New research details how the department was broken, profiting a select few and leaving a third of South Africa’s population without clean water
Young people want better representation in the corridors of power, a decent education and an economy that guarantees them jobs
Labour statistics show that more jobs were created in the fourth quarter of 2019, but the rate of increase hasn’t kept up with the growth of the potential workforce, leaving the unemployment rate constant, at 29.1%
State health facilities and the school curriculum have failed the youth, forcing young mothers into unsupported single parenthood
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The emergence of an upwardly mobile black elite is a success story, but it remains under wraps
The label is used so often it runs the risk of monotony. A new report sheds light on the full, multidimensional nightmare of South African inequality
The unemployment figures in Statistics South Africa’s latest quarterly report are shocking, but 3.5-million people are missing from the official count
StatsSA released South Africa’s economic output on Tuesday with the main contributors to the collapse being manufacturing, mining and agriculture
The survey found marginal improvement in access to services on average but with persistent inequality across provinces and demographics
According to StatsSA, the country’s labour force has decreased by 176 000 people between the first quarter of 2019 and the last quarter of 2018
Figures released by Statistics South Africa showed that CPI increased, mainly because of the increased cost of transport and insurance.
Food insecurity remains a pressing issue in South Africa – one that every individual, organisation and government body should commit to ending
Stats SA reported that non-agricultural formal sector employment dropped from 9 817 000 in March 2018 to 9 748 000 in June 2018
Let’s not fool ourselves: this is not a budget that’s friendly to the poor or the vulnerable
After the recent xenophobic violence in SA the New York Times wrote that five million immigrants call South Africa home. Is this number exaggerated?
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Unemployed people are slipping through the cracks because most of the country’s money is locked up in the financial sector.
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The four-week strike led by trade union Numsa in July disrupted the manufacturing sector causing production and output to shrink.
Consumer Price Inflation exceeded the Reserve Bank’s target band of 3% to 6% for the third time in .
It’s the number of skilled people that gets an economy going, not the distribution of those skills among its ethnic groups, writes Herman W Kruijsse.
Inflation in Africa’s second biggest economy has bust out of the Reserve Bank’s target band again in May.
Here is your guide to the data releases, central bank meetings and other events likely to drive markets in the week ahead.
This week, Stats SA is due to release the country’s latest retail figures, while China will report its growth figures. Here’s the economic week ahead.
South Africa’s poverty rate fell 11 percentage points (from 57% to 46%) between 2009 and 2011, Statistics South Africa has said.
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The unemployment rate fell to 24.1% or 50 000 according to Statistics South Africa data released on Tuesday.
Research shows women are more likely to have high blood pressure and experts blame the added stress of unequal gender roles.
The Consumer Price Index annual inflation rate in December 2013 has surprised the market, having come in just marginally higher than in November.
Factory output is looking good as the rand’s decline has boosted revenue from exports.
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South African household expenditure increased 24.6% between 2005/2006 and 2010/2011, Stats South Africa said.
Statistics South Africa says the consumer price inflation rate accelerated to 5.5% year-on-year in September.
The latest Statistics South Africa figures suggest social grants and a large public service are taking their toll on government coffers.