Deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has urged South Africans to stop relying on imports and buy more locally manufactured products to help foster job creation, according to media reports.
When you buy locally made goods, it increases the level of employment and it means local people get jobs and then they earn decent wages … and in the end this forms an economic zone," Ramaphosa said, speaking at the Proudly South African Buy Local Summit and Expo held in Sandton this week.
He said South Africans could rely less on imports, provided locally produced goods were of "great quality and internationally competitive", adding that local producers should also "work harder to reduce the cost of production" and invest in innovation.
