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dti: Manufacturing is a critical component for job creation

Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies and dti DG Lionel October
Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies and dti DG Lionel October

29th November 2017

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Manufacturing is a critical component of the South African economic policy and also important in creating and ensuring that there are jobs in the economy.

This was said by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies during a briefing to the portfolio committee on Trade and Industry on the state of manufacturing, World Trade Organisation and the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) in Parliament.

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According to Davies, though the production of digital and changes in manufacturing technologies has led to the decline in the sector, there was still improvement and a very strong linkages and multiplies to the service sectors that still sustain jobs in the economy.

“Though the sector has many challenges and the economy is not performing as well as it out to be performing, the performance in manufacturing sector is clearly doing a lot better than it would have been if we haven’t been doing the things we have been doing over the last few years especially the intervention in the automotive sector, clothing and textile, agro-processing, film and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and others,” said Davies.

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Davies reiterated that there was a need to bring about change in the structural characteristics of the South African economy, especially in the manufacturing sector, as well as in the patterns of ownership of participation and inclusion in it. He said government will not be able to achieve high level of more inclusive economic growth as long as we are producers and exporters of primary commodities.

‘We will need to develop a much more tightly coordinated and supportive environment premised on policy and programmatic certainty, if we are to convince the private sector to invest heavily, create jobs and ignite inclusive growth.,” he said.

He said tools and programmes like the Black Industrialists and Public procurements have addressed some of the weaknesses and challenges in the sector, and seen important gains in manufacturing and localisation.

Minister Davies pointed out that there are many issues that have been cited around the question of investment confidence and growth in the country and how it has been addressed. He said government has been working on sectoral levels and with the sector to try to build confidence particularly with manufactures.

Davies also said the key focus for government moving forward will be localisation, and that the department’s concern is to always try to do what it can to exert influence and not take decision which will undermine localisation.

 

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