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ESD initiatives
Parks Tau: Transformation Fund to ring-fence ESD spend
South Africa’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, has confirmed that the new Transformation Fund will ring-fence Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) contributions,