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South Africa retail sales up 2.4 percent year/year in July

Shoppers walk past a Truworths shop with Sale advertisements on its windows at the Sandton shopping mall in Johannesburg January 30, 2012. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (Reuters)

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's retail sales rose 2.4 percent year-on-year in July, above market expectations and compared with 0.9 percent contraction in June. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast retail sales would increase by just 0.3 percent compared with the same month last year. On a month-on-month basis, sales were up 1.2 percent, and rose 1.4 percent in the three months to July compared with the same period in 2013.