CAPE TOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL
ORGANIZERS GET KUDOS FOR BUYING LOCAL DECISION
BY BVUNZAMUTUPO SADC VOICE
ESPAfrika, the company behind the Cape Town Jazz
Festival, has been warmly applauded by the Department of Trade and Industry
(the dti) Director-General Lionel October for its decision to commission local
suppliers to manufacture its clothing giveaways for the 2014 chapter of the
nationally (and internationally) renowned festival.
October says he is pleased that Rashid Lombard and
Billy Domingo, and their team have taken this step.
“This tells us that the message we’ve been conveying
all around the country- for businesses to support local suppliers - is bearing
fruit. I hope that increasing numbers of South African companies will follow
ESPAfrika’s example,’’ October said.
The Strategic Projects Coordinator for ESPAfrika, Wayne
van der Rheede, said the decision to buy local followed talks with the South
African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU).
“We have agreed to support local suppliers via SACTWU’s
platform. In terms of this agreement, we will be buying branded items such as
caps and soft-collar T-shirts from Western
Cape factories. The total value of this will be
about R250, 000. There is a possibility that we will also be looking at
purchasing shirts for the occasion, in which case the value of the transaction
could then rise to in excess of R400,000 ,” ’ stated Van der Rheede.
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies says
the department has invested close to R1-billion of incentives over the past
year to raise competitiveness and to curb job losses in the Clothing, Textiles,
and Leather and Footwear sectors.
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