The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry heard today about the high volume of complaints that the Department of Trade and Industry received within a period of three months during the lockdown on the inflation and abuse of prices on a variety of products that include food, fresh produce and products that are used to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Briefing the committee, the Department of Trade and Industry's Deputy Director-General, Dr Molefe Pule, told the committee that the department received a total of 1 700 complaints within a period of three months this year, a figure he said the department never received before even in a year. He said the higher percentage of complaints that related to prices on masks and food items came from Gauteng, followed by KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape.
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