South Africa: strong end to 2020, but weak start to 2021

The upside surprise in South Africa’s mining and manufacturing output in December is unlikely to be repeated in early 2021. Tighter virus containment measures and continued power cuts probably mean that the pace of the recovery has slowed.

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