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The South African automotive industry accounts for about 10% of South Africa's manufacturing exports, contributes 7.5% to the country's GDP and employs around 36,000 people. Annual production in 2007 was 535,000 vehicles, out of a global production of 73 million units in the same year.
Although this only represents 12.4% of the total land used for agriculture in South Africa, the Western Cape produces 55% to 60% of South Africa’s agricultural exports, valued at more than R7 billion [50] (US$1 billion) [51] a year. In 2008, the sector was also one of the fastest growing of the economy, expanding by 10.6%. [37]
Location of South Africa. South Africa is the southernmost country in Africa. It is the 25th-largest country in the world by land area, and with close to 60 million people, is the world's 24th-most populous nation. The World Bank classifies South Africa as an upper-middle-income economy, and a newly industrialised country.
Almost 90% of South Africa's exports to the rest of Africa go to the SADC economies. In 2018, South Africa exported and imported goods to and from the rest of Africa to the value of US$25 billion and US$11.5 billion, respectively. Intra-Africa exports account for 26% of South Africa's total exports and imports for 12% of total imports for 2018.
In 2018, South Africa produced 19.3 million tonnes of sugarcane (14th largest producer in the world), 12.5 million tonnes of maize (12th largest producer in the world) 1.9 million tons of grape (11th largest producer in the world), 1.7 million tons of orange (11th largest producer in the world) and 397 thousand tons of pear (7th largest producer in the world).
This hope in manufacturing and industry is helped by the boom in communications technology [165] and local mining industry [166] in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Namibia has attracted industrial investments in recent years [ 167 ] and South Africa has begun offering tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment projects in manufacturing.
The figures are in billions of US dollars and are for the year 2019. All 14 companies from South Africa in the Forbes 2000 are listed. [2] *Despite the company being South African with Head Offices in South Africa, the company is listed as British by the Forbes 2000 ranking due to the entity's registered address in London.
In South Africa the Department of Public Enterprises is the shareholder representative of the South African Government [1] with oversight responsibility for state-owned enterprises in key sectors. Some companies are not directly controlled by the Department of Public Enterprises, but by various other departments.