Manufacturing Sector: Manufacturing and Unemployment Rate

manufacturing sector: The manufacture of the Navara from 2020 will also create about 400 direct jobs in a country with an unemployment rate of 27 percent. ; Automotive is already the largest part of South Africa's manufacturing sector, contributing around 7 percent of gross domestic product annually and accounting for a third of manufacturing output, said South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, speaking at Nissan's facility in Rosslyn, according to The Japan Times. Nissan's investment is the first significant commitment by an automaker since international firms agreed with the government late last year to extend a manufacturing incentive program through 2035. The decision by the Japanese carmaker may add 30,000 units to the plant's current annual volume of 35,000, said Mike Whitfield, managing director of Nissan Africa, at the factory north of Pretoria on Wednesday. The plan has also seen the likes of Toyota Motor Corp., Volkswagen AG and BMW AG operate plants in the country, in return for generous tax breaks. Nissan plans to more than double its industrial reach in the Middle East, Africa and India by 2022 by adding more factories, according to Peyman Kargar, chairman of the carmaker's operations in those three territories, who spoke in an interview last month. The majority of vehicles are produced for export. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.