Despite the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on South Africa’s economy, Trade, Industry and Competition Deputy Minister Nomalungelo Gina says the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Programme continues to “successfully drive industrialisation” of the country.
She explains that the programme has managed to attract a significant number of investors, thereby increasing the value of operational investments from R17.7-billion by the end of the third quarter of the 2019/20 financial year, to R19.5-billion by the end of the same period of the 2020/21 financial year.