PRETORIA (Reuters) – South Africa’s gross domestic product contracted 2.0% in the first quarter of 2020, following a contraction of 1.4% in the final quarter of last year when the economy entered recession, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Tuesday.
GDP shrank 0.1% year-on-year in the first quarter after falling 0.5% in the previous quarter.
(Reporting by Mfuneko Toyana; Writing by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; Editing by Alison Williams)
