JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s manufacturing output rose 2.9% year on year in September after rising by a revised 1.7% in August, statistics agency data showed on Thursday.
Factory production rose 4.9% month on month in September. Analysts had predicted a 2.35% fall in annual terms in September and for output to be flat month on month.
(Reporting by Anait Miridzhanian; Editing by Alexander Winning)