The Import Localisation and Supply Chain Disruption study is a quarterly report that seeks to identify goods from the list of imports identified in the Import Tracker report that South Africa could possibly viably manufacture. Each quarter focuses on five manufactured items from the list of imports in the corresponding quarter's Import Tracker report. The five products in this report are:

Product 1: Automotive components for goods vehicles
Product 2: Generating sets, wind-powered
Product 3: Alcoholic and other solutions used in the food and drink industries
Product 4: Static converters
Product 5: Parts for telephones, routers and other telecoms devices

See: Import Tracker - Third Quarter 2020

The Import Localisation and Supply Chain Disruption study is a quarterly report that seeks to identify goods from the list of imports identified in the Import Tracker report that South Africa could possibly viably manufacture. Each quarter focuses on five manufactured items from the list of imports in the corresponding quarter's Import Tracker report. The five products in this report are:

Product 1: Urea, whether or not in aqueous solution
Product 2: Dextrins and other modified starches
Product 3: Cards incorporating one or more electronic integrated circuit "smart cards": digital
Product 4: Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus: other
Product 5: Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells

See Import Tracker - Second Quarter 2020

The Import Localisation and Supply Chain Disruption study is a quarterly report that seeks to identify goods from the list of imports identified in the Import Tracker report that South Africa could possibly viably manufacture. Each quarter focuses on five manufactured items from the list of imports in the corresponding quarter's Import Tracker report. The five products in this report are:

Product 1: Telephones for cellular networks "mobile telephones" or for other wireless networks: designed for use when carried in the hand or on the person
Product 2: T-shirts, singlets and other vests of cotton, knitted or crocheted
Product 3: Footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics or composition leather, with uppers of leather (excluding covering the ankle, incorporating a protective metal toecap, sports footwear, orthopaedic footwear and toy footwear): other
Product 4: Dumpers for off-highway use: 0ther
Product 5: Wire of refined copper with a maximum cross-sectional dimension of >6 mm

See Import Tracker - First Quarter 2020

Business Day - 3 May 2021 by Neva Makgetla (TIPS Senior Economist)

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The small and medium enterprise (SME) sector is critical for the South African economy and job creation – but it is highly vulnerable to external shocks. In responding to the COVID-19 crisis there is much to learn from the experience of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and the impact that the credit contraction after the GFC had on the South African economy and the SME sector. This policy brief looks at the effect of the GFC, particularly the extent of credit contraction and its impact on small businesses and job creation; and makes some recommendations on how to avoid a repeat of the same the cycle.

Business Day - 19 April 2021 by Neva Makgetla (TIPS Senior Economist)

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Business Day TV - 15 April 2021 by Michael Avery

Michael Avery chats to his expert guests about the the growing market for electric vehicles and its sustainability within the SA economy in the future

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Business Day - 5 April 2021 by Neva Makgetla (TIPS Senior Economist)

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