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During the Covid-19 pandemic, some of the lockdown regulations published by Patel's ministry were derided as illogical and absurdly statist. They included rules prohibiting e-commerce, prohibiting the sale of cooked food at grocery stores, and restricting clothing retailers to sales of a state-approved list of products. [3] [72] Patel became, in the summation of the Financial Mail, the "bogeyman of the anti-lockdown brigade... held up as the poster-child of the 'irrational' Covid-19 rules". [3] However, at the end of 2020, News24 complimented the work of the Competition Commission, one of the agencies overseen by Patel, for its activist response to price gouging in sales of Covid-19 personal protective equipment; among other things, the commission fined Dis-Chem R1.2 million for overpricing surgical masks. [60]

During the pandemic, Patel contracted Covid-19 twice, testing positive on 25 July 2020 [73] and (two weeks after President Ramaphosa's own diagnosis) on 28 December 2021. [74]

Books

He has edited three books: Engine of Development?: South Africa's National Economic Forum (1993) on the National Economic Forum; Worker Rights: From Apartheid To Democracy – What Role for Organised Labour (1994) on workers' rights in post-apartheid South Africa; and, with Justin Yifu Lin and Joseph Stiglitz, The Industrial Policy Revolution II: Africa in the Twenty-first Century (2013) on industrialisation in Africa. [1]

Personal life

Patel is married and has four children. [2] He is Muslim. [75]

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The Honourable
Ebrahim Patel
MP
Head of the South African Delegation to the 12th World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference Ebrahim Patel.jpg
Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition
In office
29 May 2019 –3 July 2024
President
Deputy President
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