The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms Elizabeth Thabethe has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where she is leading a delegation of forty-three South African businesspeople for the Investment and Trade Initiative (ITI) to Kinshasa and Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from today to Saturday.
The ITI is part of the Department of Trade and Industry's (the dti) Export and Investment Promotion Strategy that focuses on targeted high growth markets with the objective of creating investment and export opportunities for South African companies and of promoting South Africa as a trade and investment destination.
“The ITI is one of the efforts by the dti meant to promote intra-Africa trade which is essential for unlocking continental growth and facilitate economic integration,” says Thabethe.
The programme of the ITI includes a trade investment seminar, exhibitions and business to business meetings. “The exhibitions will expose our companies to export opportunities and will provide a platform to promote South African products to potential new customers and penetrate new markets” says Thabethe.
Thebethe added that she is happy to be leading that business delegation and she hopes, their participation to the ITI will bring positive results to their companies and to the South African economy.
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