New initiative pushes ‘Buy South African' message

“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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