Gap between policy intent and action must be closed to halt deindustrialisation

Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) president Mervyn Naidoo has called on government to urgently close the prevailing gap between its stated commitment to support industrialisation through localisation and the manner in which public procurement is being implemented. “The problem is not the rhetoric,” Naidoo argued at a Seifsa event in Johannesburg on June 24, attended by government officials.

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