As an employer organisation that sits in the middle of the steel value chain and counts among its members the primary steel producers, steel merchants and downstream fabricators, the Steel & Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) must consider the best interests of the entire sector, not just some parts of it.

This has not been the case for some of the participants in the recent debate on the future of the steel sector that has been raging in the pages of this newspaper, and online...

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