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The Rail Road Association (RRA) of South Africa will hold its annual general meeting on Thursday, September 29. The gathering will take place at Scaw Metals’ offices in Germiston from 8:30.
The RRA has been critical of what it views as uneven localisation efforts in Transnet’s multibillion-rand locomotive procurement programme and has urged government to play a more active role in ensuring that all four suppliers deliver on their local-content commitments.
The issue came under scrutiny during a two-day colloquium on local public procurement, hosted by Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry in August.
The committee concluded that greater collaboration was required between stakeholders to ensure higher levels of localisation.
It also called for a “re-think” of policies relating to the payment for the local-content verification, which is undertaken by the South African Bureau of Standards.
The committee urged the National Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry to resolve the issue of funding for the verification process and to ensure an amendment in regulation, if necessary.