Aspen executive decries lack of support for locally made drugs
Departments outside the economic cluster do not easily follow the local procurement programme, says Stavros Nicolaou
17 April 2023 - 18:13
The government is failing to implement policies to reindustrialise the SA economy, to the disadvantage of aspirant black industrialists, Aspen strategic trade development head Stavros Nicolaou says.
“An area that is exceedingly disappointing is leveraging local procurement to reindustrialise the economy,” said Nicolaou. ..
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