{"id":20334,"date":"2025-12-02T11:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-economic-growth-slows-in-third-quarter-as-expected-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:40","slug":"sas-economic-growth-slows-in-third-quarter-as-expected-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-economic-growth-slows-in-third-quarter-as-expected-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s economic growth slows in third quarter as expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">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 on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The third-quarter growth rate, in seasonally adjusted quarter-on-quarter terms, was in line with the median forecast of analysts polled by\u00a0<i>Reuters.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">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<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Africa&#8217;s biggest economy has struggled to build momentum over the past decade, with annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaging less than 1%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The National Treasury expects a slight pickup in growth this year and next, reaching 1.2% in 2025 and 1.5% in 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Third-quarter GDP increased 2.1% on a year-on-year basis, better than economists&#8217; forecasts for 1.8% growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14374,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-20334","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"SA economy grew 0.5% in the third quarter of 2025","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20334","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\/20334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24409,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20334\/revisions\/24409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}