Parliament’s trade and industry committee has called on trade and industry minister Rob Davies and other cabinet ministers to immediately intervene in whatever way possible to address the crisis in the sugar industry.
The DA has submitted a request to the National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete requesting an urgent debate of national importance on the sugar crisis. “This tax, combined with 500,000 tons of sugar illegally dumped in the country in 2018; the R220m missing drought relief funding; and inadequate tariff protections of $680 per ton rate versus the $856 per ton, which the industry applied for, have combined to create the perfect storm for a jobs blood bath in the industry.”
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