Rob Davies left off Ramaphosa’s cabinet list
Trade and industry minister Rob Davies in Cape Town. Picture: GCIS
When Rob Davies travels to Paris this week to attend a World Trade Organisation gathering of trade ministers, it’s likely to be one of his last official engagements as minister of trade & industry.In an interview with Business Day, he said: “I’m available if I’m needed. If I’m not needed, it’s also okay ... I’m definitely not going back to parliament that’s for sure. I’m not on the list.”
Davies has headed the department of trade & industry as minister since 2009 — a role in which he tried to“I think [with] the industrial policy action plans we can show we have made progress. We’ve had a purposeful intervention on our side, but also coupled [that] with consultation and discussion with the main role players,” he said, referring to the the automotive industry, clothing and textiles sectors.
“There has been progress but I think that it has been held back by incoherence within government. It has been badly affected by state capture and corruption“Now we’re sitting with another set of externalities — reliable energy at affordable prices, the prices of other things like port charges [and] rail charges ... [These factors] are going to need urgent attention.”
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