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The government’s plans to set up a portal allowing essential services businesses to apply to trade during the lockdown have been embroiled in chaos

, with the website was still down on Thursday morning.

Such businesses are required to apply to the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission bizportal website at www.bizportal.gov.za and obtain a certificate from the commission that allows them to continue trading. The Bizportal website will contain a menu icon listed as “essential service businesses” through which an application can be made to the CIPC.

DA MP Dean Macpherson said sources within the CIPC had advised him that they were given limited notice and there was no consultation with them up until Wednesday. He said throughout the process leading to the lockdown, Patel and department of trade & industry have sent out mixed messages on important issues.

 

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