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How South Africa Rescued Its Rebate and Pulled the Industry Back From the Brink: We’re ‘Back in Business’

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How South Africa Rescued Its Rebate and Pulled the Industry Back From the Brink: We’re ‘Back in Business’
Oct 12, 2026 11:26am PT How South Africa Rescued Its Rebate and Pulled the Industry Back From the Brink: We’re ‘Back in Business’

After more than two years of almost complete paralysis, the country's 25% cash rebate program appears to be back on track

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The long nightmare might be over for South African producers, whose industry has been crippled for more than two years by the paralysis of a rebate program that for all intents and purposes had ceased to function.

Speaking this week at the Durban FilmMart, Nelly Molokoane, director of film and television production at the Dept. of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC), insisted that the government body tasked with administering the country’s 25% cash rebate has finally turned a corner. “The department is back in business,” Molokoane said.

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