South Africa's wholesale trade rose for the fourth straight month in February, albeit at a softer pace, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Thursday.
Wholesale sales rose an unadjusted 4.3 percent year-on-year in February, after a 6.9 percent growth in January.
On a monthly basis, wholesale sales fell a seasonally adjusted 1.3 percent in February, after a 4.8 percent gain in the previous month.
For the three months ended in February, wholesale sales rose 1.8 percent, following a 1.0 percent increase in the previous three months ended in January.
