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Policymakers take ‘preferential’ out of public procurement
‘The biggest change is that we will have a lawful set-aside regime instead of a preferential regime. So it’s an upfront filter, which of course is a much stricter, harder approach, really forcing entities that apply to [supply] the state to comply with BEE upfront’ – Geo Quinot, Professor of Public Law, University of Stellenbosch.