National Treasury and the DTI have issued the list of designated industries:

• Textile, clothing, leather and footware;
• Power pylons;
• Rolling Stock;
• Canned / processed vegetables; and
• Buses (bodies).

They have further described the details on the evaluation and scoring of local content in the implementation guide.

Steel was initially included but was taken out on 8 December 2011.

The Minister of Finance has exempted Schedule 2, 3B and 3D pubic entities from most of the Preferential Procurement Regulations with the exception of the Local Content regulations.
The exemption is for the period up to 7 December 2012 implying that they will apply thereafter.

On January 20, 2012, the Minister of Finance annouced the minimum thresholds for each of the designated sectors:

• Textile, clothing, leather and footwear - 100%
• Power pylons - 100%
• Rolling stock - 65%
• Canned / processed vegetables - 80%
• Busses (Bus body) - 80%

For a copy of the circular: http://www.treasury.gov.za/divisions...Jan%202012.pdf