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S. Africa Manufacturing: Production and sales
Manufacturing production decreased by 6,3% in April 2025 compared with April 2024. The largest negative contributions were made by the following divisions: • food and beverages (-7,6% and contributing -1,8 percentage points); • basic iron and steel, non-ferrous metal products, metal products and machinery (-6,3% and contributing -1,4 percentage points); • motor vehicles, parts and accessories and other transport equipment (-13,0% and contributing -1,2 percentage points); and • petroleum, chemical products, rubber and plastic products (-4,7% and contributing -1,0 percentage point) – see Table 5 and Table 6. ... (full story)