Business Day·3 min read·medium
Skills left and were not replaced: Tau urges hard reset to defence industry
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Stella Mapenzauswa
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South African Trade Minister Parks Tau has called for a major overhaul of the country's struggling defence industry. He highlighted the severe decline in procurement, research funding, and skilled labor over the past three decades.
Trade minister Parks Tau says South Africa must confront the long decline of its defence industry after three decades of shrinking procurement, collapsing research funding, the loss of tens of thousands of jobs and an exodus of skills that will not be easy to replace.
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