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church. why not permit telling. the chefs it's simple are mine on your mobile and free. t w z e learning course he calls me german made easy. tough times a holding back south africa's economy you don't have shows production slowing growth is also slowing and the government still is under the threat of losing its investment grade credit rating. and 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall we look at how some towns along the front of border are still prospering from the turn of events and one east germans rise through the corporate world of the winds. and the interest i see business more bad news for the south african economy

manufacturing output dropped for a 4th consecutive month in september as the country struggles to overcome a decade of slow growth basis factory production in africa's most industrialized economy fell by almost 2 and a half percent last year the drop was more than analysts were expecting of the 10 sectors on the matter factory production index only food and beverages share growth last week south africa lowered its growth for cost for this year 2 hots of percent . over to see born in johannesburg. born how do you read the figures. so if you take a look at the figures that were released today for the manufacturing sector you can see that the pace of the contraction has picked up pace it's dosser for september which is the latest data that we have access to and that shows a decline of 2.4 percent year on year that's a slide from the 1.5 percent contraction that was reported in august and it's also

a bigger contraction than most analysts had expected as well if you drill down into the detail to look for some of the reasoning behind it you can see that it was quite a broad based decline there wasn't one industry that really led the sector low and it comes down to the fact that there's just weak demand locally at the moment consumers are really under pressure there's high levels of unemployment so they're not looking to part with their hard earned cash for made in south africa goods it's also important to note that the september figure brings to an end the 3rd quarter and if you look at manufacturing for the 3rd quarter it's really just a decline of 3.8 percent quarter on quarter that of course is going to be the figure that they look at when they put together our overall g.d.p. figure for the 3rd quarter and so a decline of 3.8 percent from the manufacturing sector is really going to weigh on growth. so how would you say the general economic outlook is.

well as you can see from the manufacturing sector which is a key driver of our economy really in a tough position at the moment just last week we had our finance minister tito when he delivered the image a term budget policy statement and in that statement he revised growth in order to not point 5 percent and growth is really struggling at the moment for the all i really a number of reasons but it does come down to a level and zuma confidence and business confidence and government being also in a very tight position with the fiscus they're having to prop up our state owned enterprises with bailouts bailouts that they can ill afford so there's just a lot of pressure at the moment and that's why are we seeing growth come under pressure like it has been but some people do believe that presidents are i'm opposing is very aware of the situation and he's looking at things like fiscal

consolidation and changes at state owned enterprises which should then boost confidence if you seem to address those things and in boost in confidence we should see growth pick up. romans one in johannesburg. now through some of the other business stories making news could this be the long awaited breakthrough in the u.s. china trade dispute washington and beijing and reportedly agreed to cancel tariffs hikes if they agree to a 1st phase of a trade deal a chinese commerce ministry spokesman says in such an instance the 2 sides would scrap tariffs proportionately efforts to resolve a months long trade dispute have intensified in recent weeks. 2 of the original tech sector pioneers a lining up for a merger make a xerox has made an offer to take over a computer imprint to make a hewlett packard at h.p. confirm the companies have held talks about a potential tie up in the past both face difficulties as the demand for printed

documents sitting have waned. has canceled hundreds of flights today and tomorrow after cabin crew launched a 2 day strike u.f.o. trade union is demanding higher pay along with better access to regular employment as the sort of workers the alliances the costs of the strike won't affect its annual profit target of 2 to 2400000000 euros. this week marks 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall it paved the way towards german reunification and shapes the economic fortunes of the nation many towns on both sides of the 1400 kilometer border between east and west suffered years of neglect while germany was divided among them was but has felt located in the former west a little was invested there until the curtain came down in 1909 and businesses there have been braced the opportunities offered by reunification. made nice and

the logistics center for 24 plus in part has felt he's been saying 750 tons of products are transept in the warehouse every nice the products come to the transfer point from all over germany to be loaded on to other trucks there arrivals and departures are timed to scifi to save money 20 years ago peter baume on was a logistics pioneer in the half of the. 5 at that time this area was pretty remote without a lot of road infrastructure but that has changed dramatically for us in the last 20 years when it comes to shipping the road network has been built out now and it's very extensive. there but also the boardwalk and. several highways cross here there are important connections in all directions now all the big players in logistics are in the region. here at the former inner german border the east german watchtower and barbed wire have been turned into

a memorial band who died. works for the local government here he's responsible for welcoming new companies to be area he experienced the border here opening in november of 1989 but these days yet other problems in his district there's hardly any more room for new investors. helping those companies is getting more and more difficult because there are fewer properties large enough to serve big companies and it's hard to find suitable personnel when there's not an employment rate of only 4 percent. of. the properties that companies look for are close to the highway like in the time a fleet of. there's a lot going on in the business parks here near the logistics centers there are plenty of small and mid-sized businesses like this electronic company in the past employees here built simple switch boxes but today they're producing complex also mation technology. employees from former east germany

so for us it was definitely a positive development today there's no trace of the former german german border in this area. back to the logistics firm $24.00 plus the company's a testing ground for new software and that just stick solutions everyone here is thinking about digitalisation barbed wire and border walls were forgotten here long ago. well about 2000000 east germans headed west after the wall came down among them many qualified women. many made it into west german company. did i mention the border crossing. you grew up with. and then suddenly you ended up with. that must have been a shock it took i guess 6 years before i had my 1st b.m.w. when i came to. munich my 1st car there was

a course 10 years old when i boarded and that was already a for me i have another off. but i was always thrilled. even as a kid even as a kid i had more matchbox then. i have 2 older brothers so that there was no option so the male dominated car industry wasn't wasn't really a challenge for. i wasn't afraid of it i i knew. i have to speak the language of the other so i know more about horse power than about the colors of the car so to say it was so fascinating to see that every car on the production line is different not only by color but also by interior and. in east germany you had 3 weeks of wear the same time in the same color of of the same

options was produced and then it was changed and you could also not choose which options were in the car that you got delivered so one thing that doesn't seem to have changed is that there are so few women working in your area and so few women in leadership positions folks one is working very hard on diversity and inclusion in the whole focus one group we do have a chief human resource officer at bentley and no just recently also i was. a woman that was appointed so i'm not the only one anymore and i'm glad for that and i hope that this development continues so would you say you've profited from a major crisis of a system twice now the fall of the wall and then he's ok. i think it's fair to say that yes. i would probably not be in the position that i would now.

i do think that. the changes in the system that the wall came down and. pushed my career and in 2 instances. how are you dealing with these ok now there's still a lot to do. when i joined. general in 2016 i i said to my colleagues it will take 8 to 10 years to clean up have you been able to benefit from the your fair. use push towards immobility for example i mean it was quite late 1st one was also in the past in many instances often a plus follow up but yes i think. awareness of climate change and gave 2 factors to us thanks and i was trying to treat well with you ability so what's the future of mobility by 2014 we will have a lot of i don't know most cars driving around and what about women in leadership positions i hope that doesn't take till 2000 for the until we have. parity.

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