South Africa’s May manufacturing output up 2.3 percent

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s manufacturing output expanded by 2.3 percent year-on-year in May, following a revised 1 percent expansion in April, the statistics agency said on Thursday.

A worker walks near a row of cars at Nissan’s manufacturing plant in Rosslyn, outside Pretoria, September 11, 2009. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

Statistics South Africa said factory production on a month-on-month basis expanded 1.5 percent in May, but in the three months to May it decreased by 1.5 percent versus the previous three months.