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South Africa's inflation rate edged higher in June, reaching the base of the central bank's target range, but analysts said ...
Stats SA reveals that over 500 000 white South Africans have left the country in 25 years, leaving the group at just 7.1% of ...
2025 is all about speed, trust and a price tag you can stomach. FindMy’s search logs say consumer service queries jumped 162% ...
Are South Africans falling into a debt trap? Economists warn that rising consumer borrowing for essentials like groceries and ...
The head of South Africa’s statistics agency defended the methodology of his organization’s unemployment data after the chief of the nation’s top bank by customers said misclassification of ...
South Africa is not unique in battling with this data puzzle. Around the world, contradictions between official crime statistics and independent victim surveys are the norm.
In 2020, the SAPS started releasing quarterly crime statistics, for three-month periods. This allows us to get closer to real-time insight into crime in South Africa. But reading these numbers ...
Prices of final manufactured goods rose by 13.1%, from 11.9% in March, according to data from Statistics South Africa. That’s the highest rate since the start of 2013, when the statistics office ...
South Africa was among them, with major reductions across most crime types, at least under the "hard" (level 5) lockdown from 27 March to 30 April 2020. This is largely due to a shift in lifestyles.
South Africa's economy eked out marginal growth of 0.1% in the final quarter of 2023, statistics agency data showed on Tuesday, in the last gross domestic product release before elections in May.
To date, Statistics South Africa has produced three censuses, in 1996, 2001 as well as the results of the 2011 Census were released.
The sexual offences crime rate increased from 88.3 per 100,000 in 2017/18 to 90.9 in 2018/19. ... Source: South African Police Service Rape South Africa’s legal definition of rape is broad.