South Africa's January manufacturing output up 2.5 percent yr/yr
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's manufacturing output rose 2.5 percent year-on-year in January after expanding by a revised 1.8 percent in December, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. Factory production on a month-on-month basis was down 1.6 percent and rose 1.8 percent in the three months to January compared with the previous three months. (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; Editing by James Macharia)