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South African manufacturers exporting products such as steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, chemicals, electricity and hydrogen will have to provide emissions data by 2026. Photo: File
BLOCKAPI

Data, insight, action: Green manufacturing is driving competitiveness

Digital technologies such as blockchain, internet of things sensors, AI and machine learning are transforming South African industry

  • Meryl Ford
7 min read
AMSA BAILOUT

Trade commission protects legacy steel giant from competitive imports

An outdated iron ore beneficiation value chain is holding back South Africa’s industrialisation, even as government imposes tariffs mainly affecting China to shield ArcelorMittal…

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
7 min read
Cheap at the price: Chinese internet retailer Shein’s pop-up shop at Mall of Africa in Johannesburg. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
45 TARIFF

Retail industry calls for level playing field amid Sars delay in implementing 45% tariff on Shein, Temu

The South African clothing industry bemoans injustice as the Reserve Bank loses R3.5 billion as a result of lower duties on imported products

  • Aarti Bhana
5 min read