{"id":226934,"date":"2026-05-19T21:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226934"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:54:28","slug":"deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226934","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Minister pushes to \u2018buy local\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Alexandra Abrahams has called for a nationwide shift towards supporting locally produced goods. She has warned that South Africa\u2019s economic future depends on rebuilding its industrial base and strengthening domestic value chains. Speaking at the Buy Local Summit and Expo at the Sandton Convention Centre&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/business\/deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Alexandra Abrahams has called for a nationwide shift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226934-deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local.jpg",650,477,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226934-deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226934-deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local-300x220.jpg",300,220,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226934-deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local.jpg",640,470,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226934-deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local.jpg",640,470,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226934-deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local.jpg",650,477,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226934-deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local.jpg",650,477,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226934-deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local.jpg",650,477,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226934-deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local.jpg",650,477,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226934-deputy-minister-pushes-to-buy-local-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}