Yes, I got the question. Thank you very much, hon Chair. As I indicated, precisely because of some of the ... [Inaudible.] ... that our procurement regulations require ... for instance local procurement ... promoting of local suppliers ... local industries ... The difficulty arises where the manufacturers are not based in our country, and the time it takes to have them localised ... has an effect of actually impacting on the timeous delivery of some of these projects.
For that reason, Treasury has been approached and we are in concert with them on the need for the exemptions. It's a matter that we are expecting ... not so long from now, because at the ministerial level there is confluence. In fact, the Minister of Finance would've said
that there is a review, particularly of regulations to do with the Public Finance Management Act, PFMA, so as to make ... for these exemptions where they are necessary, particularly where it affects state-owned companies.
So in short, we are expecting in ... because we are regularly working on it. We should conclude that matter in, perhaps a month or less than two months.
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