Invest promotion --- South Africa has a fairly fragmented investment promotion system that is delegated to the nine provinces and even to cities. Trade and Investment South Africa (TISA) is a national agency that functions as a division of the Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition (DTIC). At the moment, provincial agencies are competing for investments at a high rate. While this may encourage provincial agencies to be more efficient, there are some potential downsides, such as disorganized information management which tends to discourage investors and 'incentive wars' between provincial agencies, results in inadequate national investment

Source author: Matshedisa Emily Mokoena mokoenamati@gmail.com