{"id":20333,"date":"2025-12-02T10:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-economic-growth-slows-in-third-quarter-as-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:40","slug":"sas-economic-growth-slows-in-third-quarter-as-expected","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-economic-growth-slows-in-third-quarter-as-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s economic growth slows in third quarter as expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) economy grew 0.5% in the third quarter of 2025, slower than the previous quarter&#8217;s revised 0.9% growth, statistics agency data showed this Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The third-quarter growth rate, in seasonally adjusted quarter-on-quarter terms, was in line with the median forecast of analysts polled by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Nine of the 10 sectors tracked by Statistics SA recorded higher output, with mining and agriculture performing well though electricity, gas and water contracted.<\/p>\n<p>Africa&#8217;s biggest economy has struggled to build momentum over the past decade, with annual gross domestic product growth averaging less than 1%.<br \/>\nThe National Treasury expects a slight pickup in growth this year and next, reaching 1.2% in 2025 and 1.5% in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13745,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-20333","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Nine of the 10 sectors tracked by Statistics SA recorded higher output","published_date":null,"news_description":"Nine of the 10 sectors tracked by Statistics SA recorded higher output","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24408,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20333\/revisions\/24408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}