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South Africans Feel the Pinch as Take-Home Pay Drops
Cape Town, South Africa. The drop marked the third consecutive monthly decline in consumer salaries.
Photographer: Dwayne Senior/BloombergSouth Africans real take-home pay declined by 1.1% in May from the previous month, according to BankservAfrica.
The drop marked the third consecutive monthly decline in consumer salaries, reflecting the strain of a sluggish local economy and mounting global volatility, the Johannesburg-based clearing house said in a statement on Wednesday. Its data tracks about 3.8 million salary earners in South Africa.