Despite the manufacturing sector’s structural decline over the last 30 years there are various positives that bode well for industrial recovery and growth.
While technically resilient, the South African metal fabrication sector is structurally constrained, with its future contingent on its embracing modernisation, sustainability and skills development
Middle East conflict is boosting interest in shale exploration as countries including Algeria, the UAE, Mexico and Australia pursue energy security and supply diversification, according to Wood Mackenzie.
Recycling associations call for intervention from the Competition Commission on scrap metal policy.
Investment commitments by South African and green energy renewables investors featured prominently at the sixth South Africa Investment Conference, with combined pledges of more than R50-billion announced.
The global total of low-carbon hydrogen production capacity has grown significantly over the past few years, but the sector remains constrained.
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The war in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.
South Africa’s GDP increased by 0.4% in the fourth quarter of 2025, following an increase of 0.3% in the third quarter of 2025, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has revealed.
Accelerating infrastructure investment emerged as a central theme of the 2026 Budget, which Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana characterised as representing a “turning point” for both debt stabilisation and for government’s reform-led growth agenda.