Although liquidations declined by 5,3% in the first 7 months of 2024, 890 business owners have already seen their dreams shattered.
South Africans earning more than R20,000 a month are reaching record levels, but households are now spending two-thirds of their income paying off debt.
Our tourism industry is doing amazingly! Between January to July alone, a sizeable 4.8 million international tourists visited South Africa.
The latest figures are in, via a report from Stats SA, and South Africa has ticked over the 60 million population mark.
For the quarter ending March 31, and starting on January 1, Stats SA has revealed that the official South African unemployment rate has decreased by 0,8 of a percentage point to 34,5%.
From young people taking over the country to white people leaving it, Stats SA’s mid-year population estimates report breaks it all down.
Maybe it’s the cool sea breeze, the mountain with it’s tablecloth of clouds or just the Cape Town attitude – we don’t know, but Capetonians live longer than Tshwane residents – fact. According to the report on mortality and causes of death for 2011 by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), Cape Town residents have a longer life span.