Consumer Confidence Major Purchases Expectations in South Africa increased to -11.80 in the second quarter of 2017 from -17 in the first quarter of 2017. Consumer Confidence Major Purchases Expectations in South Africa averaged -9.83 from 1982 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 13.10 in the second quarter of 2005 and a record low of -42.00 in the fourth quarter of 1984.