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Fewer people working from home between January and March - Stats SA
There have been many indications that offices were slowly coming back to life over the past few months but Stats SA has now confirmed that more people were no longer working from home.
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1.4 million fewer SAfricans were employed this year, says Stats SA
This was revealed in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey Results for the first quarter of 2021 on Tuesday.
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A breakdown of SA's latest unemployment figures
Stats SA said that the number of employed people in the country remained almost unchanged at 15 million between the fourth quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021. The official unemployment rate increased slightly to 32.6% in the first quarter of 2021.
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Stats SA to carry out pilot census
Cabinet on Thursday said people and institutions could register online for the pilot census up until 30 June, by visiting getcounted.statssa.gov.za. People will then be contacted by telephone.
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StatsSA: Food, non-alcoholic beverages led to high inflation rate in March
The annual headline inflation quickened slightly to 3.2% in March from 2.9% in February, rising back to the Sa Reserve Bank’s inflation target range of between 3% and 6%.
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CPI rises to 3.2% in March - Stats SA
The annual consumer price inflation increased to 3.2% in March up 0.3% from the February figure of 2.9%.
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SA’s mining production increased by 0.8% year-on-year in Feb – Stats SA
Stats SA has released its latest report on the mining industry on Tuesday, the first of several reports on key economic indicators due this week.
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Stats SA: Municipalities expanding service delivery, but less free services
Deputy Director-General for Economic Statistics, Joe de Beer, said that 6.9 million consumers benefitted from free water in 2006, but this number dropped to just over 3 million in 2019.
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Stats SA says full-time employment decreased by 11,000 jobs in Q4 of 2020
The quarter-on-quarter employment statistics do not paint as grim a picture as the figures for the year-on-year comparisons, which show just how deep the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among other factors has been on the labour market.
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CPI drops to 2.9% in Feb from 3.2% in Jan - Stats SA
The rate is the lowest since June last year when it stood at 2.2%.
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Despite COVID-19, insolvencies down by 40.2% y/y - Stats SA
Albeit that many people and businesses are undergoing financial hardships as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of insolvencies decreased by 6.7% between November and January this year.
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Liquidations increased by 8.5% in Feb - Stats SA
This signaled an increase of 10 cases of company liquidations and four close corporations during this period.
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SA's divorce rate ticks down; women mostly initiating separation - Stats SA
StatsSA released its 2019 Marriages and Divorces report and found that a total of 129,597 civil marriages, 2,789 customary marriages and 1,771 civil unions were recorded that year, while 23,710 divorces were recorded.
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FACT CHECK: MP claims 70% of informal economy ‘in hands of non-citizens’
In response to the president’s State of the Nation Address, a member of Parliament questioned why most of South Africa’s informal economy is “in the hands of non-citizens”. Africa Check takes a closer look at this claim.
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FACT CHECK: Does SA really have 15 million illegal migrants?
Africa Check takes another look at the claim which has resurfaced stating that there are 15 million illegal migrants in South Africa.
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Stats SA decision on annualised rate as headline rate for GDP growth welcomed
The agency faced backlash for continuing with the annualised rates since the second quarter of 2020 when the data showed the GDP had contracted in half following the initial hard lockdown.
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SA's real GDP decreased by 7% in 2020, according to Stats SA data
The indicators accompanied the release of the fourth-quarter GDP data, with an increase of 1.5% in the fourth quarter of last year.
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SA's Q4 economic growth was largely due to easing of lockdown restrictions
Stats SA said that eight industries contributed to the 1.5% economic growth rate and 6.3% annualised GDP increase.
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SA economy grew by 1.5% in fourth quarter of 2020
Stats SA announced the latest gross domestic product figures on Tuesday.
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Stats SA: Almost 70% of black children live without biological dads at home
The report revealed that only 31.7% of black children stayed with their biological fathers, compared to 51.3% of coloured children, 86.1% of Indian/Asian children and 80.2% of white children.
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Cosatu describes record high unemployment rate as appalling
Earlier on Tuesday, Stats SA revealed that the joblessness crisis in the country was worsening as the expanded definition of unemployment now stands at over eleven million people.
