South Africa's wholesale trade rose for the fifth month in a row in March, albeit at a softer pace, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Thursday.
Wholesale sales rose an unadjusted 2.6 percent year-on-year in March, after a 7.2 percent growth in February.
On a monthly basis, wholesale sales fell a seasonally adjusted 1.1 percent in March, after a 0.7 percent growth in the previous month.
For the three months ended in March, wholesale sales rose 3.8 percent, following a 2.4 percent increase in the previous three months ended in February.
