JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s manufacturing output expanded by 1.1 percent year-on-year in April following a revised 1.6 percent contraction in March, the statistics agency said on Thursday.
A worker walks near a row of cars at Nissan’s manufacturing plant in Rosslyn, outside Pretoria, file. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
Statistics South Africa said factory production on a month-on-month basis shrunk 0.6 percent in April, decreased by 3 percent in the three months to April versus the previous three months.
Reporting by Mfuneko Toyana; Editing by James Macharia
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