{"id":36606,"date":"2026-06-09T14:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36606"},"modified":"2026-06-09T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:45:20","slug":"sas-economy-increases-by-0-5-stats-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-economy-increases-by-0-5-stats-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s economy increases by 0.5%: Stats SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">South Africa\u2019s (SA) economy has grown modestly by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2026 from 0.4% in last quarter of 2025.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The latest data released by Statistics SA (Stats SA) shows that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was supported by increased output in the agriculture, finance, trade, transport and the mining sectors contributed positively to the economy in the first quarter of the year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Nine out 10 sectors tracked by the national statistical service in the first quarter of 2026 except for the manufacturing sector, which contributed negatively to growth in the period.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Stats SA Chief Director Doctor Bokang Vumbukani says, \u201cSA&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product increased by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the fourth quarter of 2025. \u00a0The main industry that contributed to the increase finance, real estate and business services.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Vumbukani says, \u201cThe finance real estate and business services increased by 0.9% contributing 0.2% to GDP growth. \u00a0Household final consumption expenditure increased by 0.1% contributing 0.1% to total growth.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35452,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-36606","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Nine out 10 sectors tracked by the national statistical service in the first quarter of 2026.","published_date":"","news_description":"Nine out 10 sectors tracked by the national statistical service in the first quarter of 2026.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36606","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\/36606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36607,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36606\/revisions\/36607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}