'Import Syndrome' Denounced: "Lately, the Ministry of Trade has been inundated with complaints with regard to the difficulty of entering local products in the local retail network.
Such complaints come from manufacturers of soaps, body and hair creams and products, detergents, arts and crafts, toilet paper, garments and foodstuffs.
Recently, the agriculture project at Etunda also complained about the lack of local buyers for their products, which forces them to send their produce to South Africa, from where it is re-imported at a much higher price.
In an effort to promote locally made products especially for the rural poor, Executive Director of WAD Veronica de Klerk said this was an urgent 'wake-up call' for the private business sector to seriously reflect on issues such as the importation of goods which could be sourced locally from poor people instead."
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