South Africa's April manufacturing output up 1.1 percent yr/yr
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's manufacturing output expanded by 1.1 percent year-on-year in April following a revised 1.6 percent contraction in March, the statistics agency said on Thursday. Statistics South Africa said factory production on a month-on-month basis shrunk 0.6 percent in April, decreased by 3 percent in the three months to April versus the previous three months. (Reporting by Mfuneko Toyana; Editing by James Macharia)