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South Africa's wholesale sales dropped for the first time in five months in July, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Thursday.
Wholesale sales grew an unadjusted 2.0 percent year-on-year in July, after a 10.9 percent rise in June.
On a monthly basis, wholesale sales declined a seasonally adjusted 3.8 percent in July, after a 4.8 percent fall in the previous month.
For the three months ended in July, wholesale sales rose 1.6 percent, after a 2.1 percent increase in the previous three months ended in June.