RATE IT | Money is tight, but here’s why minister Ebrahim Patel wants you to buy local

Minister dispels belief that local products are inferior.

Summit in Sandton, Johannesburg, to discuss the state of SA's economy and encourage local investment.

He praised SA businesses for producing health and safety-compliant goods in response to the pandemic and said some of these were even exported. “You are not going to be able to achieve a rise in living standards if you remain at the bottom end of the value chain, simply as producers of agricultural products and mining commodities.”

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