The submissions made by various industries to parliament’s finance committee on the Public Procurement Bill have pushed for priority to be given to localisation in preferential public procurement, in line with the department of trade, industry & competition’s stated policy.
And why wouldn’t they? Localisation — called import substitution when it was integral to the apartheid government’s efforts to counter the effects of international sanctions — clearly favours vested interests. Any industry association that objected to its members being given preferential treatment over foreign competitors would soon experience a change of executive personnel...
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