South African Retail Impact: sales reflect a y-o-y decrease of -1,7% in May 2023 and a decrease of -0,8% in Jun 2023. South African Wholesale Impact: sales reflect a y-o-y decrease of -1,8% in May 2023 and a y-o-y decrease of -4,6% in June 2023

Containers landed increased by 40,7% in July 2023 compared to last year (an increase of 38,4% from 2019) and containers shipped increased by 37,4% in July (an increase of 61,1% from 2019)

Employment increased by 55 936 individuals (5th quarter of positive employment growth) assisting the drop in the broad unemployment rate to 24,3% for 2023 Q2.

In July, the Rand improved slightly against the dollar, averaging R18,20/$ (vs. R18,77/$ in June). The Rand improved minimally against the Euro and Pound. Overall for Jan to Jul 2023, the Rand weakened significantly when compared to the same period of 2022, 2021 & 2019

The WC food CPI decreased to 9,5% in July, 0,6 percentage points lower than South Africa’s 10,1%. Load shedding and the weakening exchange rate remains key drivers to upward pressure. The continuous hikes in the repo rate have assisted in the headline CPI decreasing to below 6%, falling within the target range.

This is a list of all files in the City of Cape Town data science data lake bucket covid-fatalities-management, prefix data. The urls for these datasets are all at the root directory https://ds2.capetown.gov.za/covid-fatalities-management/data . It is only accessible if you are on the City of Cape Town corporate network. You can use this listing to see how often datasets are being updated, and keep an eye on new datasets that may appear from time to time.