South African retail sales fell 0.5% year on year in February after falling by 0.8% in January, Statistics South Africa figures showed on Wednesday.

On a month-on-month basis, sales decreased 0.1%.

Sales in the three months to the end of February were down 0.6% compared with the same period last year, the statistics agency said.

 

(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya Editing by Alexander Winning)