Manufacturing sector
Ndabeni-Abrahams' dept to ramp up support for manufacturing sector
Small Business Development Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams told a mini plenary of the National Assembly last week that there would be better funding...
The decline in manufacturing production wasn’t unexpected given the difficult economic conditions that underpinned the year.
Production in the sector plummeted by almost 6% year-on-year in December.
Although it bounced back from the 2009 recession, the sector's growth has slowed down to 0.1% in 2014.
New Stats SA figures show the extent to which mining & manufacturing sectors suffered since 2009’s recession.
Compared the same period last year, South African factories produced slightly less in April.
The manufacturing sector has lost 300,000 jobs since 2010.