Overview
- About 300 to 400 people demonstrated outside Parliament in Cape Town, with a follow-up protest planned in Pretoria on Thursday.
- Industry groups say adjudication meetings for the DTIC rebate stopped in October 2023, creating backlogs, job losses and stalled productions.
- The memorandum demands the resumption of approvals and an independent investigation into alleged mismanagement and governance failures, plus working groups and an application-tracking portal.
- Portfolio committee chair Mzwandile Masina accepted the memo, said he would arrange a meeting with Minister Parks Tau, and would request that the department appear before Parliament.
- The DTIC declined public comment but said it would respond directly to the coalition within 10 days.