An R API providing access to a relational database with macroeconomic time series data for South Africa, obtained from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and Statistics South Africa (STATSSA), and updated on a weekly basis via the EconData < https://www.econdata.co.za/> platform and automated scraping of the SARB and STATSSA websites. The database is maintained at the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University.