Gross domestic product
Inside SA's bleak second quarter GDP figures
Statistics South Africa revealed that the country has fallen deeper into recession, with the economy shrinking by 16.4% from the first quarter to the second...
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GDP pre-coronavirus lockdown fell by 2%
This data does not include post lockdown data on the economy’s performance.
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SA slips into technical recession after 1.4% GDP contraction in 4th quarter
This is the third time the country slipped into a technicial recession since 2009.
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SA's GDP decreases by 0.6% in the 3rd quarter
Some of the contributors were agriculture, which contracted by 3.6%, mining by over 6% and manufacturing, which decreased by almost 4%.
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Three big problems to fix in 2019
The first big task confronting many countries is to re-couple overall economic progress with gains in living standards.
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South Africans warned to spend wisely in wake of fuel price drop, Q3 growth
Stats SA on Tuesday announced a 2.2% increase in the third quarter Gross Domestic Product.
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[LISTEN] Buying only SA-made vehicles could boost GDP by R37bn
Wits postgraduate student Lourens Weyer says government’s reliance on buying expensive imported vehicles has negative effects on the economy.
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Presidency welcomes latest GDP numbers
Statistics South Africa announced earlier on Tuesday the economy grew by 3.1% in the fourth quarter of 2017.
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[ALERT] GDP growth 3.1% in fourth quarter of 2017
Stats SA says the largest positive contributor to growth in GDP in the fourth quarter was the agriculture, forestry and fishing industry,
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SA breaks out of technical recession
Second quarter GDP data has shown that South Africa has moved out of technical recession with growth of 2.5% in the second quarter of this year.
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Gigaba: Treasury committed to fiscal consolidation after downgrades
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba said the Treasury aims to stabilise the government’s net debt over the next three years at 50% of gross domestic production (GDP).
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SA GDP grows 3.3% q/q, technical recession avoided
This is the fastest quarter-on-quarter rise in economic activity since the fourth quarter in 2014.
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SA’s Q4 current account deficit widens to 5.1 pct of GDP
Economists surveyed by Reuters had expected a 4.35 percent gap for the fourth quarter.
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‘More that R50 billion could be added to SA’s GDP’
Jacob Zuma says Operation Phakisa has identified massive untapped wealth in the oceans surrounding SA.
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Nigeria set to be Africa's largest economy
The west African giant is set to overtake South Africa in terms of its GDP size, but does it matter?
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Gordhan: GDP not the only measure of growth
The finance minister also pledged to work more closely with business and encourage foreign investment.
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Cosatu: strikes don't hurt economic growth
Stats SA says strikes in the third quarter added to contraction in the manufacturing sector.
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'Strikes behind poor GDP growth'
Economists blame labour unrest for SA’s lower than expected growth in the third quarter.
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SA GDP below expectations
Quarter-on-quarter growth was just 0,7 percent from the second quarter's revised 3,2 percent.
