Tag: Manufacturing
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25 Oct 22 NewsLocal news
Economic growth expected to slow to 1.9% (SAnews)
South Africa’s economic growth is expected to slow to 1.9% in 2022, says Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana. The Min...
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25 Oct 22 NewsLocal news
Report backs Proudly SA’s Buy Local campaign (SAnews)
A report on South Africa’s manufacturing sector has reaffirmed what the national Proudly South African campai...
Promoting the textiles and clothing value chain: Role of the AfCFTA
25 Jul 22 PublicationsDOWNLOAD PUBLICATION
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is giving the continent new energy to boost intra-Africa trade with the regional economic communities (RECs) ...
Trade in Used Clothing in Africa – implications for developing a textile and clothing regional value chain in Africa
27 Jun 22 PublicationsDOWNLOAD PUBLICATION
The textile and clothing industry in Africa has been identified as one of the sectors that has the potential to drive Africa’s industrialisation and create ...
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23 Jun 22 NewsLocal news
Opportunities abound in transport, logistics if challenges can be addressed (Engineering News)
There are considerable challenges facing the country’s commuter transp...
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03 Mar 22 NewsCountry-related news
SA automotive industry developments boost optimism for manufacturing sector (Bizcommunity)
The amended Automotive Production Development Programme (APDP) reg...
South African policy needs to catch up with electric vehicles
23 Feb 22 BlogSouth Africa has every reason to be proud of its automotive manufacturing industry. It is a tremendous asset to the country’s balance of trade. Two-thirds of the vehicles it make...
Moving Up the Value Chain – How Can Africa Keep Climbing the Ladder?
21 Dec 21 BlogIn the standard model of world trade, which is taught to first year students around the world, the patterns of world trade are fixed and unchangeable. Ricardo’s classic model of ...
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19 Nov 21 NewsNational
Additive manufacturing in South Africa boosted by local technology developments (Engineering News)
Although the Covid-19 pandemic has had a very real impact on the secto...
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13 Jul 21 NewsNational
Manufacturing output up 35% y/y in May (Engineering News)
Manufacturing output increased by 35.3% year-on-year in May, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports. The la...
Covid vaccine manufacturing in Africa – important, but not the first-line response to this pandemic
06 Jul 21 BlogMany Africans are, quite justifiably, deeply angered at the inequities in the global distribution of vaccines to combat the Covid-19 epidemic. These replicate existing global inequ...
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11 Jun 21 NewsNational
Masterplan to position South Africa as ‘globally significant’ renewables manufacturer (Engineering News)
Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) director-g...
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08 Jun 21 NewsNational
South Africa Parliament Calls for Comments on Fair Use (infojustice)
South Africa Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry has invited a further round of...
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06 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
South African trade rises on a tide of rallying commodity prices but government must boost economy to withstand a turnaround (Daily Maverick)...
The Automotive Components Trade in Africa: Its Place and Potential (2021 Update)
31 Mar 21 PublicationsAt present, Africa is largely dependent on the rest of the world for automotive component imports, with the exception of the contribution of South Africa. In order to reduce depend...
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04 Nov 20 NewsNational
Cheap imports sour SA’s sweet silver lining (IOL)
When President Cyril Ramaphosa, presenting the government’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan to Parliament...
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24 Sep 20 NewsNational news
Manufacturing tipping point could be pushed back by innovation and tech – De Ruyter (Engineering News)
Addressing the Manufacturing Circle annual general meeting ...
DDG Wolff: Trade, global cooperation can best deliver adequate medical supplies
09 Sep 20 NewsInternational trade and cooperation among WTO members are vital to ensure sufficient supplies of medical devices during the COVID-19 crisis, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff said...
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03 Sep 20 NewsNational news
Naledi Pandor to lead SA at G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting (Devdiscourse)
International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor is set to lead South Afri...
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27 May 20 NewsThe inaugural virtual meeting of the Kenya-US Free Trade Agreement Negotiations Secretariat took place today, Kenya’s CS Trade and Industry Betty Maina has announced.
Ghana’s ...