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
Recycling associations call for intervention from the Competition Commission on scrap metal policy.
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.
Research agency BMI forecasts that sub-Saharan Africa’s real GDP will grow by 4.2% this year, compared with 3.9% last year.
ndustry body Grain SA has warned that South Africa’s sharply lower maize prices may bring relief to consumers but are placing severe financial pressure on local grain producers.