Public holidays and the ailing manufacturing sector had a negative effect on economic activity in KwaZulu-Natal in April. The growth index of the latest KwaZulu-Natal barometer was slowed to 2.3% year-on-year, from 3% the month before. The overall barometer was up 0.6% year-on-year, after growing by 0.8% the previous month. However, both the growth index and the overall barometer were down on a month-on-month and quarter-on-quarter basis, which does not bode well for the KwaZulu-Natal economy going forward.

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Dr Clive Coetzee

General Manager:  Infrastructure Management and Economic Services

KZN Provincial Treasury

Economist (PhD UKZN)

033 897 4538

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