Iain Ambler: Why SA's insane ventilator-sourcing regulations makes my head want to explode

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Dusting off and modernising the blueprints of its Africa-customised ventilator was the easy part for Pietermaritzburg-based Clifford Machines. Actually getting a licence to make the life-saving equipment that is so desperately needed in the war against Covid-19 has been "like walking through mud." Iain Ambler's company stopped making the respirators more than a decade ago because it refused to pay bribes demanded by State gatekeepers. Believing things had changed, they answered a Thuma Mina call last month. In this Moment of Clarity Ambler explains why he's sorry he even bothered.

22 May 2020 10AM English South Africa Business · Business News

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