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Electricity generated by South Africa dropped by 3,3% in July compared to the same period last year, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. The total volume of electricity distributed in South Africa for the month of July has decreased progressively from 21 119GWh in 2013

Statistics South Africa did not rule out that load shedding has had an impact on the manufacturing sector’s decline in GDP, but added that it could not confirm its impact. “It could just have easily been a lack of interest in products and we might have seen

South Africa is producing less electricity than it did last year, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. According to a report by Stats SA entitled Electricity generated and available for distribution, which

South Africa’s economy shrank by 0,6% in the first three months of the year, Statistics South Africa reported on Tuesday. “The seasonally adjusted real GDP at market prices for the first quarter of 2014 decreased by an annualised rate of 0,6% compared with an increase of 3,8% during the fourth quarter of 2013,” it said in a statement. “The main

The South African economy grew by 3,8% in the last quarter of 2013, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. This was compared with 0,7% growth in real gross domestic product (GDP) in the previous quarter of last year. The main contributors to the

The process of monitoring South Africa’s consumer price inflation is going digital. Government’s statistics service, Stats SA, said on Friday that it has decided to “explore possible digital alternatives to the paper-based collection which currently informs the CPI”

Statistics published on Wednesday show headline consumer price inflation slowed in June to 5,5%. But a detailed analysis of the data reveals that prices in some categories are soaring and in others, most notably telecommunications, they are falling. Although Stats SA doesn’t provide