The products in the basket are updated periodically to better reflect shifts and trends in consumer spending. Product weights ...

General, Risenga Maluleke, defends the integrity of the 2022 Census data against criticism from two UCT professors.

Patrick Kelly, head of price statistics at Statistics South Africa, said it was difficult to gauge what impact the update ...

New galaxy discovery: The Karoo-based MeerKAT telescope has discovered a new galaxy 32 times the size of Earth’s galaxy. It ...

South African agricultural organisations have questioned the sector’s steep decline in last year’s Q3 GDP data. The Bureau for Food and Agriculture Policy, which is renowned for its insight, dug into ...

South Africa saw over 1,500 businesses liquidated in 2024, but the big number doesn’t tell the full, more positive, story.

While black households were the only group who increased their spending over the eight years to 2023, the income gap between ...

The rebasing of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Consumer Price Index (CPI) will ensure that economic indicators ...

Survey results shows how woman-headed and black households are under so much more pressure compared to man-headed and white ...

South Africa will add rosé wine, snuff and e-cigarette refills to its inflation basket and remove frozen potato chips and ...

General launched a fiery defence of the country's statistics agency on Tuesday – but a key critic refuses to back down.

China’s economic activity unexpectedly faltered to start the year, breaking the momentum of a recovery sparked by stimulus ...