SA’s unemployment rate climbed to 25,3% in the second quarter of 2010, a slight increase from 25,2% in the first three months of the year.
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/ 9 February 2010
SA’s official unemployment rate edged lower in the fourth quarter of 2009, halting massive job losses.
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/ 6 November 2009
South Africa’s statistics agency has rebased its gross domestic product (GDP) survey and added previously excluded activities.
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/ 29 October 2009
SA’s official jobless rate increased to 24,5% of the labour force in the third quarter of 2009, from 23,6% in the second quarter, a report shows.
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/ 28 October 2009
South Africa’s targeted consumer inflation slowed to 6,1% year-on-year in September from 6,4% in August, data showed on Wednesday.
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/ 23 September 2009
South Africa’s producer price inflation stood at -4% year-on-year in August compared with -3,8% in July, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
Nearly three million of the 6,7-million young South Africans in the 18-to-24-year age group were unemployed or not receiving education and training.
South Africa’s targeted consumer inflation slowed sharply to 6,9% year-on-year in June, below expectations, from 8% in May.
SA’s official jobless rate ticked up slightly in the second quarter, a labour report showed on Tuesday.
South Africa’s producer price index (PPI) is expected to have increased in March at 5,5% year-on-year (y/y) from the 7,3% y/y seen in February.
The increase in South Africa’s consumer price index was up 8,6% in February from 8,1% year-on-year in January, Statistics SA said on Wednesday.
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/ 24 February 2009
South Africa’s manufacturing sector is not only in a recession, it is dropping at rates last seen before TV had even been introduced into the country.
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/ 24 February 2009
South Africa’s real gross domestic product dropped by -1,8% in the fourth quarter of 2008 from +1,2% in the third quarter, Stats SA said on Tuesday.
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/ 9 December 2008
SA gold production in October fell 14,4% year-on-year, Statistics South Africa announced on Tuesday.
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/ 12 November 2008
Retail trade sales for September 2008 decreased by 5% at constant prices, compared with September 2007, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
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/ 30 October 2008
SA’s producer price inflation (PPI) slowed to 16% year-on-year in September from 19,1% in August, below expectations, data showed on Thursday.
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/ 28 October 2008
Employment levels in the second and third quarter of 2008 remained stable at 13,7-million, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday.
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/ 15 October 2008
SA’s retail sales fell by 5,5% year-on-year in August at constant prices, official data showed on Wednesday.
SA’s jobless rate was at 23,1% of the labour force in the second quarter of 2008, from 23,5% in the first quarter, a labour report showed on Thursday.
South Africa’s economic growth rate accelerated to 4,9% in the second quarter of 2008 on a seasonally adjusted and annualised basis.
Normally, inflation data is reweighted every five years to factor in changes in consumer behaviour. As the economy grows and wages increase, spending on certain items such as food, electricity and petrol tend to decrease. This time, however, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) is releasing the new inflation data six years after the last official […]
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There is no error in Statistic South Africa’s calculation of the official inflation rate, the agency said on Wednesday.
South African stocks were little changed at noon on Tuesday in a thin-volume session, as some traders remained on the sidelines ahead of Wall Street opening. At midday the all-share index was neither here nor there (-0,06%) at 31 754,380. Resources were up 0,50% but the gold- and platinum-mining indices were down 0,16% and 1,63% respectively.
The rand and bond market in South Africa are at one that the indefinite delay in South Africa’s producer price index (PPI) is causing the country’s reputation harm on the global stage. Dealers and portfolio managers in the rand and bond markets on Monday said that the untimely delays were causing damage.
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/ 16 November 2007
Writing in his weekly newsletter on the African National Congress website, President Thabo Mbeki on Friday railed against the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) for making ”the startling claim” that more South Africans are now poorer than they were in 1996. The SAIRR, in turn, defended itself in a statement released later in the day.
The Eastern Cape has some of the poorest districts in the country, according to Statistics South Africa