Cape Town — THE offset programme of the strategic defence procurement package is expected to deliver only a quarter of the direct and indirect jobs promised by cabinet ministers at the time the controversial R30bn arms contracts were signed about six years ago.
A government official has made the first admission that arms contractors were likely to create only 2000-3000 direct jobs via offset investments by 2011, and not the 12000 promised at the time by then trade and industry minister Alec Erwin.
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