SA’s third investment conference will be focused on consolidating the roughly R664bn in pledges made at previous events, and the opportunity that the government’s economic recovery plan offers to attract new investment, said trade, industry and competition minister Ebrahim Patel on Monday.
Patel was speaking at a briefing to provide details on 2020’s flagship SA Investment Conference, being held in Sandton next week. The conference is set to go ahead despite the ongoing grip of the coronavirus pandemic, which has hit global foreign direct investment flows.A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as exclusive Financial Times articles, ProfileData financial data, and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.