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We wish all our readers a joyous and fun and love filled holiday season. Please be safe, don't drink and drive and see you all in the new year. Best Wishes, The South African Market Insights Team
We take a look at South Africa's November 2018 inflation numbers as published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)
We take a look at the formal business sector profits earned based on an article from Statistics South Africa following the release of the latest Annual Financial Statistics (AFS) results.
We take a look at South Africa's cell phone imports since the start of 2014. And no surprise that the bulk of the cell phones imported into South Africa comes from China. But what will surprise readers is the country in 2nd place behind China.
We take a look at the growth rates of the main industry types in South Africa's economy. The primary, secondary and tertiary industries and find that South Africa needs to lessen its dependence on the primary industries in terms of economic growth and employment.
We take a look at South Africa's credit card transactions. Just how many times are credit cards swiped in South Africa each month? And how money money is spent per month on credit cards in South Africa.



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We take a look at South Africa's coal exports to India and find that almost 50% of all of South Africa's coal exports heads to fast growing BRICS counterpart India, now the 6th biggest economy in the world.
We take a look at South Africa's inflation rate over time as well as show when the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) monetary policy committee (MPC) raised or cut the repurchase rate (Repo rate), which in turn leads to banks cutting or raising interest rates.
South Africa's GDP for  Q3:2018 : + 2.2%. Statistics South Africa published South Africa's latest economic growth rate numbers and South Africa has exit it's technical recession with 3rd quarter 2018 growth coming in at 2.2% largely driven by increases in manufacturing and finance activities
We take a look at the latest interim results published by giant media group, Naspers (NPN). We believe that Naspers is planning on unbundling Multi Choice group (MCG) because of the uphill battle it is facing against ever increased competition in the streaming and pay per view market. This will hurt MultiChoice's DSTV and Showmax offerings.
We take a look at some of the results of the latest agricultural survey published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) and focus on the income earned by the sector during 2017 and which products and categories contributed the most to overall income earned in the agricultural sector.
We take a look at the latest predicted fuel prices for South Africa. And based on the data from the Central Energy Fund (CEF) South Africans can expect the petrol price to decline by around R1.85 per litre.
We compare the growth in gross earnings as reported in the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) with the growth in the official inflation rate and find that recently, growth in gross earnings has been lower than the growth in the inflation rate.
One of our favourite sectors to cover in the South African economy is the tourism industry. Largely due to government earmarking it as massive contributor to employment in future and one of the future star sectors of the South African economy.
We take a look at the latest numbers from the Annual Financial Statistics (AFS) survey published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA). In this article we will focus on the security costs as a percentage of total income earned by firms. Which industries or sub industries pays the highest percentage of total income earned on security? 
In this article we take a look at the year on year inflation rates from January 2018 to October 2018 as published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on a curved bar chart. Wondering if South Africa's inflation rate is increasing? 

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In this article we take a look at the different sectors in South Africa's economy and the growth of each sector over the last 20 years on a radar timeline chart. While the agricultural sector makes up a very small part of South Africa's overall GDP (around 2.5%) it is prone to severe swings in growth rates largely driven by the behaviour of mother nature.

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