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Manufacturing
The purchasing managers index (PMI) is due this week. This key manufacturing survey will be keenly expected, given its reliability as an indicator of the health of the SA economy's second biggest sector. It is widely anticipated that the PMI will indicate that manufacturing activity contracted for the third month in a row last month, even though it may have happened at a slower pace than in August. Read more >>
 Reports claim that LM Wind Power is considering opening a factory - its first plant in the southern hemisphere - in South Africa. If LM made the move it would aim at supplying the African market and possibly also Latin America. According to Nirmal Gupta, director for key accounts and strategic positioning at LM, the company had identified two sites in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces and is now in talks with South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation about financing the investment. Read more >>
Business Day reported that manufacturers will appeal to the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) for relief on its planned electricity tariff hikes, arguing that the increases would force many companies out of business. Read more >>
 Conditions in the manufacturing sector have been described as "dreary" by the Manufacturing Circle's Quarterly Bulletin, which released its latest report this week. It says that South African manufacturers are "undergoing a lot of stress" at the moment. Read more >>
Vehicle manufacturing company Rotrax Cars International - which is reportedly suing Absa for R187-million over alleged breach of contract - has secured a loan for R560-million from a Swiss bank so that it can go ahead with plans to build its Rotrax El Macho vehicle. Read more >>
 According to the new Proudly South African (PSA) CEO Leslie Sedibe, the excitement generated by the PSA campaign when it was launched ten years ago has faded. It is his job, he said, to generate new excitement and foster interest in locally manufactured goods. Read more >>
Machinery
Less than a fifth of the tools used in South Africa are manufactured locally, Gauteng's Department of Economic Development reportedly said on Tuesday, 27 September 2011. Read more >>
Environmental Management
A huge new transfrontier park that will stretch from Angola in the west to Zimbabwe in the east - and estimated to be 15 times larger than the Serengeti in Tanzania - is being planned for Africa. Read more >>
Human Resources & Recruitment
 Workers who have been with Kumba for five years or more will get a R500 000 bonus in December as part of a generous employee share option scheme that will see the company paying out more than R2,5-billion to its employees. Read more >>
Retailers
 Pick n Pay, late last week, announced the opening of latest addition to its expanding African footprint - its first Mauritian store in Bagatelle's Mall. The company will open a further two stores in Mauritius in the next year. Read more >>
Women's health
 PRETORIA: With October being International Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) is encouraging all women to invest in their health by learning how to detect various female cancers early. Read more >>
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