KZN orphanage still struggling to access ARVs in HIV/Aids fight
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Q1 GDP declines by 3.2% for largest quarterly drop in decade
The drop was mainly driven by declines in manufacturing and mining.
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FACT CHECK: Do 8 professionals leave South Africa for every 1 that comes in?
Africa Check takes a look at the claim that for every one professional immigrating to South Africa, eight are leaving.
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Rural households staving off food insecurity with subsistence farming - study
Stats South Africa has found that three-quarters of households resort to growing their own food and it's not necessarily for trading purposes.
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Social grants second-most important source of income in SA – Stats SA
Over 17 million South Africans rely on social welfare grants from the state.
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ANALYSIS: Data fails to capture complexity of SA’s unemployment crisis
South Africa’s embrace of international conventions has buttressed the country’s reputation in statistical circles. But these global standards prove a poor fit for the country.
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WC no longer has lowest unemployment rate, according to stats
At 19.5%, the province's unemployment rate is now a percentage point higher than Limpopo’s.
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The provinces with the highest unemployment rates from 2009 - 2019
A look at the trends in unemployment by province over the last 10 years shows that two provinces, the Free State and the Eastern Cape, have consistently had the highest unemployment rates.
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3 mln discouraged workers: The unemployed have given up - economist
Statistics SA released the Quarterly Labour Force Survey results which showed that the unemployment rate had increased by 0.5% in the first three months of 2019.
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SA unemployment rate hits highest level since 2017 at 27.6%
South Africa's unemployment rate has risen to its highest level since the third quarter of 2017 to 27.6% at the end of the first quarter of 2019, according to data released by Stats SA on Tuesday.
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Saftu's Vavi warns SA's unemployment rate could increase
Statistics South Africa is expected to release its quarterly survey on the unemployment rate on Tuesday.
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No independent audit on alleged voting irregularities, says IEC
At least 27 parties are demanding that the independent audit be conducted by another body other than Stats SA.
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CT murder rate highest, Tshwane lowest in SA - safety report
The report is a collation of data from sources like the South African Police Service and Stats SA to look at the state of crime, violence and safety in the country’s nine metros.
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SA’s manufacturing output up 0.3% y/y in January
On a month-on-month basis factory production contracted by 2% in January, Statistics South Africa.
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SA economy expands by 1.4% in Q4 of 2018
South Africa’s economy expanded 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2018 after a revised 2.6% expansion in the third quarter, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Tuesday.
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Unemployment rate expected to decrease for Q4 of 2018
In the third quarter, the unemployment rate increased to 27.5% with 6.2 million people without work.
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CPI slows to 4.5% from 5.2%
Statistics South Africa released the data on Wednesday.
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Stats SA to announce third quarter GDP results
South Africans will know on Tuesday whether the country has emerged from a technical recession.
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Retail trade sales rose 0.7% y/y in September 2018
Stats SA also announced that retail trade sales increased by 1.5% in the third quarter of 2018 compared with the third quarter of 2017.
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Stats SA: 7 of 10 SA’s industries record drop in labour force
The survey for the third quarter has revealed that 6.2 million South Africans are without jobs.
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Commercial farmers urged to participate in agricultural census
Stats SA is set to embark on the countrywide census on Monday the 15 October.
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Finance Minister says govt didn't see recession coming
Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene says he doesn’t think that the latest figures have something to do with the current heated debate around the expropriation of land without compensation.
