South African Market Insights

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We take a look at wage inflation in South Africa across various major sectors of the South African economy. Does the wage inflation of the mining industry track that of retail, or wage inflation of government track the wage inflation of the manufacturing sector?
We take a look at the goods that were imported into South Africa from January 2019 to November 2019. And the bulk of South Africa's imports is made up by two categories, namely machinery and equipment and mineral products.
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We take a look at the latest banking sector information for October 2019 as published by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB). So are banks still impairing more and more of their loans and advances issued? And what is the profitability of South African Banks like?
We take a look at the latest trade statistics as published by SARS regarding the goods South Africa imports from Vietnam and the goods South Africa exports to Vietnam. Since our website shows an ever increasing number of people from Vietnam visiting our site we decided to look at international trade between Vietnam and South Africa​

Since the festive season and the holidays are upon us we take a look at the latest average prices of various items that will be consumed a lot over the festive season, and they all start with a B. Beer, Brandy, Biltong and Biskuit aka rusks.
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We take a look at the latest customs data released by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and it shows that China is by far South Africa's biggest trading partner both in terms of exports and imports. Germany and the United States takes 2nd and third spot.
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In this article we take a look at the year on year inflation rate of food in South Africa and compare it to South Africa's food products import inflation as calculated by Unit Value Indices (UVI) published by Statistics South Africa.

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In this article we take a look at the volatile growth rates of the agricultural industry in South Africa as well as take a look at the overall size of the sector in South Africa's economy. While it employs a large number of people in an informal and infrequent basis its overall contribution to the total economy of South Africa is minimal yet crucial

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We take a look at the financial stability review, second edition 2019, published by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), who is ultimately responsible for financial stability in South Africa. 


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Woolworths doing what they do best, writing off more and more of their investment in David Jones, the Australian department store group. On the bright side is Woolworths Foods which keeps growing at rates a lot faster than the rest of Woolworths divisions. ​
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Our sister site covered the latest earnings report from Nike Inc and their results show that almost two thirds of Nike Inc. earnings comes from their footwear sales by far the bigger seller than their clothing and apparel division.
We take a look at the latest financial results from Exxaro in which the group announced a strong increase in their interim dividend as well as a special dividend which combined should see investors earn R17.61 in dividends (or around 13% dividend yield) for the interim period alone.

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We take a look at the latest inflation numbers published for July 2019 by Statistics South Africa and it shows that there is very little to no demand pull inflation with inflation for durable goods 


Latest Financial Results for KAP industrial: We take a look at the full year financial results of KAP Industrial Holdings for the year end June 2019. ​KAP Industrial Holdings Limited (KAP) is a JSE-listed diversified industrial group consisting of industrial, chemical and logistics business

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​We take a look at the latest financial results of  City Lodge Hotel Group, the owner of City Lodge,  Town Lodge and Road Lodge. They have a massive footprint in the cheap to middle cost hotel and motel offerings in South Africa.​


Is South Africa seen as a commodity dependent country? Most people would probably say yes, but when looking at the numbers we are not classified as a commodity dependent country.

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We take a look at an article published by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) that shows that South Africa stands to gain significantly from a no deal Brexit, should it take place (their estimate shows SA stands to gain $3.1 billion).

As the saying goes one man's trash is another mans treasure. This certainly holds true in this case as chaos in Europe and UK could lead to substantial gains for South Africa.
We take a look at the latest financial results released by MTN this morning. And based on the results we believe at their closing price of R112.70 yesterday they are about 10% overvalued at this point in time. So we expect to see MTN shares drop a little in coming weeks.

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