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The Question Every Black Supplier Already Knows the Answer To
There is a question that has been sitting in the middle of South Africa's enterprise and supplier development sector for twenty years. It does not appear in annual reports. It is rarely the opening line of a transformation strategy. But every Black supplier who has been through an ESD programme has encountered it, usually in silence, usually after the training certificates have been handed out and the contract has not followed.
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On 13 February 2026, the South African Supplier Diversity Council (SASDC), in its capacity as Secretariat of the Enterprise and Supplier Development Community of Practice, hosted a high-level Enterprise and Supplier Development Policy Stakeholder Consultation in partnership with the Department of Small Business Development at the SASDC offices in Johannesburg.
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