North West Business 2021-22
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SPECIAL FEATURE<br />
SPECIAL FEATURE<br />
South African economy at a glance<br />
Insight into the South African ecomomy.<br />
SPECIAL FEATURE<br />
ZIMBABWE<br />
NAMIBIA<br />
BOTSWANA<br />
Limpopo<br />
7%<br />
MOZAMBIQUE<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>West</strong><br />
6%<br />
Gauteng<br />
Mpumalanga<br />
35%<br />
7%<br />
SWAZI-<br />
LAND<br />
<strong>North</strong>ern Cape<br />
2%<br />
Free State<br />
5%<br />
LESOTHO<br />
KwaZulu-<br />
Natal<br />
16%<br />
<strong>West</strong>ern Cape<br />
14%<br />
Eastern Cape<br />
8%<br />
Percentage contribution of each province to national GDP.<br />
SOURCE: STATS SA WWW.STATSSA.GOV.ZA<br />
Credit: Impala Platinum<br />
secured tens of thousands of new seats on direct<br />
Trends Table: South African mining production<br />
flights to and from the city).<br />
• Companies are successfully trading into Africa.<br />
Good Increased signs for the economy by 116.5% include: year-on-year • Niche in agricultural April markets <strong>2021</strong>. are booming with<br />
• Several provincial governments and investment macadamia nuts being the most successful.<br />
agencies are establishing trade relations and Pecan nuts have done well and wine and grape<br />
study Largest programmes contributors with BRICS countries. State % increase exports to China % contribution<br />
are growing.<br />
visits to and from China immediately before and • Private education at school and tertiary level is<br />
after a major BRICS summit in 2018 gave an indication<br />
that Ramaphosa holds high hopes for • New banking licences have been issued and<br />
growing as a sector.<br />
Platinum Group Metals 276.1% 39.2%<br />
increased trade with the biggest of the BRICS several more are in the pipeline.<br />
nations. Two-way trade between the countries in • New stock exchanges came on line in 2017 and<br />
2017 was worth $39.1-billion. South Africa wants more are expected.<br />
to Gold grow tourist numbers from China. South Africa 177.9% • Investment 16.6% in infrastructure (especially ICT and<br />
became the first country in the world to export railways) is strong. Nedbank’s report on capital<br />
beef to China in 2017, to go with existing exports expenditure in South Africa stated that the<br />
of<br />
Manganese<br />
iron ore, platinum<br />
ore<br />
and fruit and wine.<br />
208.2%<br />
29 large projects<br />
14.2%<br />
announced in the first half<br />
• Tourists are visiting South Africa in record numbers<br />
(Cape Town’s Air Access programme has Mail). The renewable energy<br />
of 2018 were valued at R63.9-billion (Financial<br />
programme<br />
Iron ore 149.1% 13.3%<br />
Source: StatsSA.com<br />
17 SOUTH AFRICAN BUSINESS 2019<br />
Source: world exports.com<br />
Table: South African mineral sales<br />
Mineral sales increased by 152.7%<br />
year-on-year in April <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Largest contributors % increase % contribution<br />
PGMs 465.9% 103<br />
Iron ore 115.6% 19.5<br />
Gold 40.9% 6.5<br />
Source: StatsSA.com<br />
Source: world exports.com