This is according to information that was released by Statistics SA.

Agriculture has taken the biggest loss with -7.6% in the fourth quarter.

South Africans keep hoping that load-shedding would end and become a distant, bad memory.

This comes after Minister Gwede Mantashe said a new power generating company is a possible plan.

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