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Cape Times reports that Parliament has called on the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to speed up its investigation into the crisis in the poultry sector in order to save thousands of jobs.
Last week, DTI spokesperson Sidwell Medupe said various measures had been put in place to stave off job losses and that the task team set up two weeks ago would soon report to ministers in the economics cluster on the plan to save jobs. KwaZulu-Natal and other provinces have been severely affected by the cheap chicken imports coming from the EU and Brazil. This has led to many farms closing down or scaling down on employment. Chairperson of the select committee on trade and international relations in the National Council of Provinces, Eddie Makue, said urgent action was needed by the state. He also encouraged the poultry industry to work on the rapid transformation and industrialisation of the sector.
- Read this report by Siyabonga Mkhwanazi in full at Cape Times
- Read the select committee’s press statement at Parliament online
- See too, Chicken crisis blamed on brine rules, on page 2 of The New Age of 6 February 2017
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