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NATIONAL NEWS - Stats SA has announced that South Africa has broken out of the technical recession with GDP growth of 2.5% in the second quarter of this year.
Statistician-general Pali Lehohla announced the second quarter gross domestic product figures at a briefing in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Lehohla says the economy grew quarter-on-quarter as well as year-on-year.
"GDP quarter-on-quarter is 2.5%. Year-on-year it is 1.1% and six months-on-six months is 1.1%. The growth rate, historically, we see that we had two quarters that put us in a technical recession, which with this quarter we are out of."
He says several sectors contributed to the positive growth.
"And we can see that primary industries contributed 10.3%, secondary industries 1.9% growth and tertiary industries 1.2%. So the primary industries, namely agriculture and so on, contributed quite significantly."
