The Department of Trade and Industry has gazetted its final plan to clamp down on the theft of South Africa’s infrastructure.
The Department of Trade and Industry and Competition has gazetted the final plan of action to regulate and restrict the trade of scrap metal in South Africa, which includes a temporary six-month ban.
The department said that stolen copper, steel and other metals go through several processes and are mainly exported across borders as. Scrap metal is a legitimate trade in the country, making it difficult to track illegal trade and exports. There will be no export prohibition on scrap metal containing various other metals, but rather a continuation of the export permit system for waste and scrap metal already subject to export control, including stainless steel and other ferrous waste and scrap metal excluded from the export prohibition. Waste and scrap of cobalt, bismuth, titanium and zirconium will not be subject to the export permit system.
Exports of ferrous waste and scrap metal will be temporarily prohibited, but exceptions will be allowed, the DTIC said.
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