South Africa’s May manufacturing output rises 0.5% y/y

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s manufacturing output rose 0.5% year on year in May, after falling by a revised 6.4% in April, statistics agency data showed on Thursday.

Factory production rose 2.0% month on month in May after rising by a revised 1.7% in April.

(Reporting by Sfundo Parakozov;Editing by Alexander Winning)