South Africa's manufacturing output falls 16.3% year on year in June - Reuters Africa

Workers work on machines at a clothing factory at an industrial town of Newcastle, 260 km (162 miles) southeast of Johannesburg, file. REUTERS/Jon Herskovitz

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa’s manufacturing output fell 16.3% year on year in June after contracting by 32.4% in May, the statistics agency said on Tuesday.

Factory production however was up 16.8% in June month on month, but declined 30.2% in the three months to the end of June, Statistics South Africa said.

Reporting by Mfuneko Toyana; editing by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo