This requires the correct deployment of our human resources and a higher quality of management systems. It is worth reminding ourselves what exactly the DTI is responsible for in the public sector. These objectives in turn require programmes and strategies that will lead to the above outputs. Growth, development and democracy require the economic empowerment of all of our people - which means that we have to pay particu attention to the majority who were previously excluded. We are not a large enough economy to be able to ignore the importance of the total economic potential of this region and Africa as a whole.
Poverty is a fundamental obstacle to growth and development.
The past has created excessive wealth disparity and distorted our economy. A powerful tendency in globalisation at present is that it can exacerbate wealth dispar unless specific steps are taken to counter this. If this is the work of the DTI then clearly it has to have an industrial strategy to achieve these objectives. We accept that this strategy is not sufficiently well set out in an accessible form. We are working on correcting this problem.