South African retail sales fell 0.9% year on year in November after falling by a revised 2.3% in October, Statistics South Africa figures showed on Wednesday.

On a month-on-month basis, sales increased 0.4%.

Sales in the three months to the end of November were down 0.7% compared with the same period last year, the statistics agency said.

(Reporting by Nellie Peyton; Editing by Andrew Heavens)