{"id":47623,"date":"2026-10-09T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47623"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:00:52","slug":"sa-manufacturing-sector-records-sharp-decline-in-august","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-manufacturing-sector-records-sharp-decline-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"SA manufacturing sector records sharp decline in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s manufacturing sector has recorded a significant decline in August.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stats SA data shows that manufacturing declined by 4.3% in August, compared to the same time last year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stats SA Director of Industry Statistics, Nicolai Claassen, says local manufacturing production lost momentum in August with nine of the 10 manufacturing divisions recording a fall in activity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The largest contributors were the petroleum, chemical products, and rubber and plastic products divisions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;On a month-on-month basis, seasonally adjusted manufacturing production decreased by 3.1% in August 2026 compared with July 2026. This is the sharpest month-on-month decline since May 2024, when production weakened by 4.1%,&#8221; says Claassen.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23149,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-47623","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Stats SA data shows that manufacturing declined by 4.3% in August, compared to the same time last year.","published_date":"","news_description":"Stats SA data shows that manufacturing declined by 4.3% in August, compared to the same time last year.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47624,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47623\/revisions\/47624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}