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Stats SA to help with land reform process
From next Monday, officials are to visit farmsteads countrywide embarking on a census of commercial farms.
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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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Rand slumps as SA enters recession for first time since 2009
Statistics South Africa said the economy contracted by 0.7% quarter-on-quarter, led by declines in the agricultural, transport and retail sectors.
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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.
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SA slips into recession as GDP contracts in second quarter
Statistics South Africa released the figures on Tuesday, saying that this is the second drop, following a decrease of 2.6% in the first quarter of the year.
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Eskom is govt's biggest spender at over R75bn - report
Eskom’s capital expenditure for 2017 was R75.5 billion which is three times more than the second biggest spender, Transnet, at R25 billion.
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SA unemployment rate rises to 27.2% in Q2
In its quarterly labour force survey, Statistics South Africa says that the manufacturing sector saw the most job losses.
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Gauteng is SA's most populous province, Stats SA reveals
Statistics South Africa on Monday released the mid-year population estimates, revealing that South Africa’s population now stands at 57.7 million.
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Economist: SA’s economy still not creating enough jobs
Stats SA released the findings on Tuesday showing that employment increased due to the community services construction manufacturing and business services sectors.
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Employment increased by 56,000 jobs in Q1, stats show
Stats SA has attributed the increase to community services, construction, manufacturing and the business services sector.
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Almost 90% of SA households don't have internet at home - GHS
The Western Cape has by far the highest number of people with internet access at home, followed by Gauteng.
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6 positive ways in which SA has developed in last 15 years
The percentage of people with no formal schooling has dropped by 6.7 percentage points nationally between 2002 and 2017.
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Fewer than 17% of South African belong to med aid schemes - Stats SA
Stats SA’s Isabelle Schmidt says this figure has remained largely unchanged for more than a decade.
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Less than 17% of SA households have medical aid – survey
Stats SA says access to medical aid is determined by wealth while about 70% of households use public health facilities.
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Stats SA: TB, diabetes top 2 killers in SA
HIV came in as the fifth leading cause of natural deaths at 4.8%.
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Retail sales rise slower in January as Black Friday effect wanes
Retail sales rose by 3.1 percent year-on-year in January, after increasing by a revised 5.1 percent in December and 7.9 percent the month before that.
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[ALERT] SA unemployment down 1% to 26.7%
StatsSA has announced that unemployment was down to 26.7% in the fourth quarter of 2017 from 27.7% in the third quarter.
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CPI quickens to 4.7% year/year in December
On a month-on-month basis, inflation quickened to 0.5% in December from 0.1% in November.
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[ALERT] CPI slows to 4.6% year/year in November
On a month-on-month basis, inflation slowed to 0.1% in November from 0.3% in October.
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[ALERT] SA GDP at 2% in third quarter
A Reuters poll had expected third-quarter GDP growth to come in 1.5% q/q from 2.5% in the previous quarter.
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Economists expect Reserve Bank to leave rates unchanged
Earlier on Wednesday, Stats SA announced that CPI slowed to 4.8% in October in line with expectations.
