Following a two-month export training course, Rhulani Maluleke secured a contract with a Mozambican state agency to build a coal laboratory in Mozambique. He is one of more than 5,000 businessmen and women who have benefited from an export-readiness initiative launched three years ago by the Department of Trade and Industry. Maluleke’s company, Hope Coal Services, develops coal-processing plants. In 2015, he completed an exporting course through the Small Enterprise Development Agency that he says gave him a better understanding of export insurance and customs requirements. The global exporter licence initiative, launched in 2013, forms part of the department’s National Exporter Development Programme, which aims to double SA’s exports to 1% of world share. SA’s share of global exports fell 40% between 1985 and 2014, according to the World Trade Organisation. The department’s deputy director-general of Trade and Investment SA, Pumla Ncapayi, says that between 2013 and March 2016 a to...
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