South African Market Insights
Latest updates to our website
We update our Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMME) page by looking at the employee costs expressed as a percentage of total income earned by smaller firms across various sectors of South Africa's economy and find that on average smaller firms spend about R1 on employee costs for every R5 earned.
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Wondering what South Africa trades with its Southern Hemisphere foe (in terms of sport such as Rugby and Cricket) Australia? South Africa and Australia tend to trade very similar goods and services with the rest of the world, think commodity and raw material exports and crude oil imports, but what exactly do they trade with one another. We take a look at the latest numbers released by South Africa's customs office
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Since the dawn of democracy in South Africa, South Africa's manufacturing industry has been on the decline due to South African companies being allowed to trade with the rest of the world since Apartheid ended. The effect of this is that local companies can import manufactured goods for cheaper than what they would pay for locally manufactured goods.
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With all the controversy surrounding the ruling party's apparent decision to expand the mandate of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to include growth and employment as part of their mandate, we take a look at South Africa's current interest rates as set by the SARB monetary policy committee (MPC) after the disasterous GDP numbers for South Africa released yesterday and find our interest rates are far above suggest levels.
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We take a look at the latest financial stability review as published by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB). The document highlights, among other things, the biggest risks to South Africa's financial stability and the potential impact these risks could have on our financial stability if they happen. The report also shows defaults on loans and advances in South Africa is increasing sharply.
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We take a look at the latest set of financial results published by Mr Price Group. And based on the surge in the share price of the group's shares on Friday after the release of their results, it looks like the markets loved what they saw. While the results were good, we believe MRP shares are close to being fully priced.
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We take a look at struggling food group, Famous Brands latest financial results. And we say struggling food group as their entry into the UK market with the acquisition of Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) has blown up in their face. They have written down a massive chunk of their R2billion odd investment in GBK. So how did things go for the group up to end of February 2019?
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Have you ever wondered what percentage of various race groups speak different types of languages? Or what percentage of South Africans speaks Afrikaans, English, isiZulu, isiXhosa? We take a look at the lastest results released in the 2018 General Household Survey (GHS) and what it says about languages spoken in South Africa.
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We take a look at the latest update released by SASOL (SOL) yesterday in which it said its Lake Charles Chemicals Project (LCCP) in the USA will cost an estimated $1.1billion more than originally thought. The shares plunged and the stock had it's second worst day in the last 29 years of trading according to twitter user Johann Biermann (@JohannBiermann1)
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We take a look at food producing group Pioneer Food's financial results for the interim period ending March 2019. Pioneer Foods has seen a significant decline in its share price in recent months from a share price that was trading around R140 a share at the beginning of 2018, its now almost half that price trading at R78.45 a share at the time of writing this review of their financial results
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Based on the success of some of our other dedicated pages such as South Africa's GDP and South Africa's Manufacturing industry, we have decided to create a page dedicated to statistics and information relating to South Africa's mining industry.
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We take a look at the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) results which shows that South Africa's official unemployment rate has increased from 27.1% in fourth quarter of 2018 to 27.6% in the first quarter of 2019. So unemployment rate is up, but even more concerning is the fact that 3.4 million youths are not in employment, education or training.
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