JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African retail sales rose 2.6% year-on-year in November following a revised 0.4% increase in October, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.

On a month-on-month basis, sales were up 3.1% and up 1.2% in the three months to the end of November compared with the same period last year, the statistics body said.

Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; Editing by Alexander Winning