“South Africa First” has been launched by the South African Local Procurement Advocacy Trust, initially in the IT sector, to ensure that locally owned producers benefit from the estimated R1-billion per week “infrastructure boom” being spent on products and services.
The campaign will encourage government departments, State-owned enterprises and businesses to include local content preference in tenders, and will run competitions and projects to promote local design, manufacture and competitiveness.
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