Northern Cape

• Agriculture and Agro-Procesing
• Fishing and Aquaculture
• Mining and Mineral Procesing
• Manufacturing
• Tourism
• Knowledge Economy
• Energy sector

Growth

The Northern Cape growth slowed down from a growth of 1.8% in 2008 to -1.5% in 2009 and then increased to 1.9% showing some recovery after the recent financial crisis, at constant 2005 prices. This can be attributed to the net growth in the primary, secondary and tertiary industries of the Northern Cape.

Labour market

The unemployment rate of all of the provinces except the Northern Cape increased from the fourth quarter 2011 to the first quarter 2012. The Free State experienced the largest increase in unemployment (2,8 percentage points). Comparing the National Unemployment rate to the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 0,2 of a percentage point can be observed.

Employment by industry

When comparing the first quarter of 2012 with the first quarter of 2011, there has been an increase in employment in all sectors (mining, manufacturing, utilities, construction, trade, finance and community and social services) except for agriculture, transport and private households. The highest employing sectors are community and social services and agriculture.