The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (also known as the dtic; before June 2019 the Department of Trade and Industry or the dti) is the department of the

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with responsibility for

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and industrial policy. The dti and its subsidiary agencies are involved in promoting economic development,

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, implementing commercial law (including companies law and

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), promoting and regulating

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, and consumer protection. The political head of the department is the

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, who is assisted by a Deputy Minister. , the minister is Rob Davies and the deputy minister is Mzwandile Masina. The executive head of the department is the Director-General of Trade and Industry; as of 21 April 2011 this is Lionel October. In the 2010 national budget, the department received an appropriation of 6,150.1 million

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, and had 1,140 employees.

Subsidiary agencies

The dti Group includes various subordinate agencies which perform specific functions. These agencies are classified in three "clusters", as follows.

Development Finance and Small Business Development Institutions

Export Credit Insurance Corporation (ECIC)

National Empowerment Fund (NEF)

Regulatory Institutions

Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC)

Companies Tribunal (CT)

National Consumer Tribunal (NCT)

National Credit Regulator (NCR)

National Gambling Board (NGB)

National Lotteries Commission (NLC)

National Consumer Commission (NCC)

Standardisation, Quality Assurance, Accreditation and Metrology Institutions

National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS)

South African National Accreditation Systems (SANAS)

South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)

National Metrology Institute of South Africa (NMISA)

References

External links

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