Abstract
Localisation strategy is one of the South Africa government strategies aimed at promoting
economic growth and re-industrialization of the country through local content programme. The
foundry sector is one of the foundation stones for metal related manufacturing and fortunately
has been selected as one of the focus industries for localisation programme. However the
economic sustainability of South Africa foundries have been in dramatic decline, South Africa
had about 450 foundries in the 1980s, just over 200 were found in 2003 and about 170 were left
in 2014. This dismal decline in foundries is due to years of underinvestment, a widening skills
gap and import leakage. The South African government through its state departments had
introduced localisation strategy initiative to promote procurement of local content produced
locally for use in government initiated projects such as State Owned Enterprises (SOE)
Infrastructure programme as a means of supporting local foundries’ competitiveness. This paper
highlighted the role of the MCTS in the broader South Africa Industrialisation strategy such as;
human capital development, technology transfer, product and process improvement.