Parliament passes Industrial Development Policy motion

The policy measures include industrial establishment rules, role of the state in industrialisation, incentives such as free or subsidised land, taxation regime, establishment grants, reserved sectors policy, as well as import substitution support programmes.

Earlier debates on the motion had seen Member of Parliament (MP) for Selebi-Phikwe, Gilson Saleshando take a swipe at Makgato-Malesu for what he called her failures in the last five years.