South Africa reveals domestic procurement targets

South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has revealed the products and sectors in its first wave of preferential procurement in a bid to increase local sourcing and reverse the country’s “industrial decline”.

Items include power pylons, rail rolling stock, buses, canned vegetables, clothing, textiles, footwear, leather products and set top boxes.

The new regulations will apply to public sector buyers and those buyers working at private firms, trade unions and voluntary organisations that have signed the Local Procurement Accord, which commits these groups to work together to increase local procurement by monitoring and evaluating their progress on agreed local sourcing goals.

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