JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African retail sales rose 8.6% year on year in July after falling by a revised 2.3% in June, Statistics South Africa figures showed on Wednesday.
On a month-on-month basis, sales were down 0.1%.
Sales in the three months to the end of July were up 1.8% compared with the same period last year, the statistics agency said.
(Reporting by Anait Miridzhanian; Editing by Alexander Winning)
