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‘To put a movement like Nafcoc together and support those black businesses to get licenced, to get formed, to organise themselves properly, it really paved the way for those early entrepreneurs that emerged around that time,’ says African Bank’s chair, Thabo Dloti.

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‘The question is does she have legal standing to go and contest this under a review process because the exchange control regulations are saying, well, actually she never really was entitled to that money,’ says Dhahini Naidu, director at Fairbridges Wertheim Becker Attorneys.

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‘During this period, we've had engagement with government at various levels and within the state machinery, but it's very difficult to gauge what the outcome or commitments may or may not be from the state,’ says Jaco Human, executive officer at the Industrial Gas Users Association of Southern Africa.