Charles Molele
The ANC’s highest decision-making body between national conferences has urged government to drive localization, black economic empowerment and the development of local manufacturing in its procurement of COVID-19 equipment.
The national executive committee (NEC) of the ANC took a resolution on the issue during a virtual meeting on Thursday, when it discussed COVID-19 and economic reconstruction, transformation and growth.
The NEC said government should consciously empower small businesses, cooperatives and the informal sector in all of phases of its COVID-19 interventions.
The NEC also tasked the ANC’s Economic Transformation Committee to urgently develop, for discussion, a draft Post Covid-19 Economic Reconstruction, Growth and Transformation Plan, that places localisation and reindustrialisation, transformation, investments in the Second Economy, the green economy and job creation, and integration into the African continent at the centre.
This comes after black businesses complained about the marginalization of small businesses and local manufacturers in the
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