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Lack of Trade and Industry DG leading to dysfunction in department

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‘We're going to raise it with the president as well, because the president should also be worried that there's a department that is as critical as the DTIC that hasn't had a DG for more than two years,’ says Kganki Matabane, CEO of the Black Business Council.

25 Oct 2023 7AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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