# Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, has called for a coordinated approach to revitalise South Africa’s defence industry, saying the industry sits at the frontier of manufacturing precision, systems engineering and technology sovereignty. He delivered the keynote address at the Defence Industry Lekgotla at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria yesterday. Tau acknowledged that the industry has experienced significant decline over the past three decades, owing to defence budget cuts in South Africa:
Minister Tau says the changing global geopolitical dynamics are an opportunity to rebuild SA’s defence industry base [SOUND]
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