GDP growth: shock and awe
Economists are now scrambling to reduce their 2019 growth forecasts
06 June 2019 - 05:00
The SA economy is in far worse shape than nearly everyone realised and could well be heading for its second recession in a year.
The consensus was that real GDP growth would contract by about 1% in the first quarter...
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