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Press Releases
JOHANNESBURG, 5 MARCH 2021 –Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel will deliver the opening address at the inaugural BRICS Manufacturing Conference, taking place on 26 March 2021 at the…
JOHANNESBURG, 4 MARCH 2021 – The Critical Skills List recently released by the Department of Home Affairs for public comment is indicative of South Africa’s failure to close the gaps…
JOHANNESBURG, 4 MARCH 2021 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) is proud to have partnered with VennCap Business Solutions to assist companies to successfully secure…
JOHANNESBURG, 2 MARCH 2021 – The inaugural BRICS Manufacturing Conference, to be held on 26 March in Sandton, will shine a spotlight on Special Economic Zones (SEZ), which have the…
JOHANNESBURG, 25 FEBRUARY 2021 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) today released its flagship publication, The State of the Metals and Engineering Sector Report 2020-2022.…
JOHANNESBURG, 25 FEBRUARY 2021 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern African (SEIFSA) welcomes the national budget presented by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni in Parliament yesterday. SEIFSA Chief…
JOHANNESBURG, 23 FEBRUARY 2021 – The quarterly labour force survey (QLFS) data released by Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) today reflects the challenge faced by the Government in dealing with inequality…
JOHANNESBURG, 22 FEBRUARY 2021 – The inaugural, one-day BRICS Manufacturing Conference, which was initially scheduled to take place last year, will finally take place on 26 March 2021 in Sandton,…
JOHANNESBURG, 12 FEBRUARY 2021 – Entries are open for the seventh annual SEIFSA Awards for Excellence and the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) is calling on…
JOHANNESBURG, 11 FEBRUARY 2021 – The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown conditions which it occasioned had a devastating effect on the South African economy in general and the manufacturing sector…
JOHANNESBURG, 4 FEBRUARY 2021 – The impact of COVID-19 has had a significant negative impact on businesses across all sectors and taken a toll on healthcare systems and facilities in…
JOHANNESBURG, 3 FEBRUARY 2021 – Entries are open for the seventh edition of the annual SEIFSA Awards for Excellence, which are aimed at celebrating excellence in the Metals and Engineering…
JOHANNESBURG, 01 FEBRUARY 2021 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) is concerned about the slow pace of recovery in the manufacturing sector, as depicted by…
JOHANNESBURG, 1 FEBRUARY 2021 – The COVID-19 pandemic came at a time when South Africa’s Metals and Engineering (M&E) and broader manufacturing sector was already struggling as a result of…
JOHANNESBURG, 22 JANUARY 2021 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) welcomes the Reserve Bank’s decision to leave the repo rate unchanged at 3,5%, which it…
JOHANNESBURG, 12 JANUARY 2021 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) said today that November 2020’s decline in the manufacturing production growth rate showed that the…
JOHANNESBURG, 10 DECEMBER 2020 – The latest dip in the manufacturing production growth rate in October shows that economic recovery will be bumpy under COVID-19 restrictions, the Steel and Engineering…
JOHANNESBURG, 10 DECEMBER 2020 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) welcomes the confirmation yesterday that trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement…
JOHANNESBURG, 8 DECEMBER 2020 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) is encouraged by the uptick in economic activity, as reflected in the positive GDP growth…
JOHANNESBURG, 7 DECEMBER 2020 – Manufacturing businesses in South Africa cannot afford a further electricity tariff hike, given the strain the economy is under, Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of…
JOHANNESBURG, 25 NOVEMBER 2020 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) is pleased to see that the inflation rate continues to remain within the monetary policy…
JOHANNESBURG, 25 NOVEMBER 2020 – In a year that has highlighted the importance of innovative thinking to drive the agility and resilience needed to dodge economic curveballs such as the…
JOHANNESBURG, 19 NOVEMBER 2020 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) welcomes the decision by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to keep the repo rate…
JOHANNESBURG, 12 NOVEMBER 2020 – The Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) released today by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reflects the deepening negative impact of the national lockdown put in…
Johannesburg, 28 October 2020 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) welcomes Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), with SEIFSA Chief Economist Michael…
JOHANNESBURG, 15 OCTOBER 2020 – The quarterly employment statistics (QES) data released today by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) runs counter to the Government’s economic recovery plan, which needs all…
JOHANNESBURG, 15 OCTOBER 2020 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) is pleased to announce the entrants for the sixth edition of the SEIFSA Awards for…
JOHANNESBURG, 9 OCTOBER 2020 – Weaknesses in government leadership is holding South Africa back, to the detriment of current and future generations, academic Khaya Sithole said at a Steel and…
JOHANNESBURG, 1 OCTOBER 2020 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) today welcomes the continuous rise in overall business activity for September, as proxied by the…
JOHANNESBURG, 29 SEPTEMBER 2020 – The disappointing employment data released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) today highlights the mammoth task facing stakeholders and policy makers in their efforts to…
Introduction Management will be aware, from recent media reports, that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa), the National Council of Trade…
The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) welcomes the increase in the Producer Price Index (PPI), as per the data released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)…
Caterpillar will be hosting its annual 3-day comprehensive training Date: 21-23 October 2020 Contact: CIPL_Supplier_Info@cat.com The session will take place ONLINE
JOHANNESBURG, 17 SEPTEMBER 2020 – The decision by the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) Monetary Policy Committee to leave interest rates unchanged generally aligns with market expectations and comes as…
JOHANNESBURG, 17 SEPTEMBER 2020 – The decision to move the country to level 1 of the national lockdown put in place to fight the spread of COVID-19 will give struggling…
JOHANNESBURG, 9 SEPTEMBER 2020 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) has partnered with manufacturing industry veteran Leon Viljoen to provide support, guidance and advice to…
JOHANNESBURG, 8 SEPTEMBER 2020 – As expected, the countrywide lockdown to fight the spread of COVID-19 from 27 March 2020 severely affected economic activity in the second quarter as real…
Overall business activity in the manufacturing sector, as captured by the headline ABSA Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for August 2020, provides some level of reassurance to companies in the Metals…
JOHANNESBURG, 1 SEPTEMBER 2020 – The 19 employer associations affiliated to the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) and the industry’s five trade unions today formally adopted…
Increased Selling Price Inflation Offers Strained Businesses Room To Manoeuvre On Costs, Says SEIFSA
JOHANNESBURG, 27 AUGUST 2020 – The increase in the Producer Price Index (PPI) for intermediate manufactured goods in the Metals and Engineering (M&E) sector is expected to ease the pressure…
JOHANNESBURG, 20 AUGUST 2020 – As South Africa ends its first week under alert level 2 of the national lockdown to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Steel…
Given the unprecedented socio-economic challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the SEIFSA-affiliated Employer Organisations and the sector’s five biggest trade unions today concluded an unprecedented stand-still agreement which will…
JOHANNESBURG, 11 AUGUST 2020 – The national lockdown occasioned by COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on manufacturing output, as reflected by negative growth rates in the volume of manufacturing…
JOHANNESBURG, 10 AUGUST 2020 – The Steel and Engineering Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) is deeply concerned about a decision by Eskom in the Eastern Cape to import components designated…
JOHANNESBURG, 5 AUGUST 2020 – The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) has welcomed yesterday’s high court ruling in favour of the Department of Trade, Industry and…
Although the composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) continued to trend in the expansionary zone, important sub-indices did not live up to expectation, the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern…
The Department of Trade and Industry has partnered with Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy - GIZ of Germany to capacitate South African companies who wish to better understand the…
JOHANNESBURG, 30 JULY 2020 – The Steel and Engineering Federation of Southern Africa today welcomes the decision by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) to appeal the high…
JOHANNESBURG, 30 JULY 2020 – The drop in the selling prices of domestic intermediate products will likely put a further strain on companies in the Metals and Engineering (M&E) sector,…
