Ebrahim Patel

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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] [71] 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. [59]

During the pandemic, Patel contracted COVID-19 twice, testing positive on 25 July 2020 [72] and (two weeks after President Ramaphosa's own diagnosis) on 28 December 2021. [73]

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. [74]

References

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  42. "Patel: Deconcentrate markets to give black entrepreneurs more opportunities". The Mail & Guardian. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  43. 1 2 3 4 "Overreach for success — has the Competition Commission gone too far?". Financial Mail. 18 August 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  44. "Ministers say Walmart-Massmart merger poses a risk". The Mail & Guardian. 2 August 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
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  62. de Lange, Riana (17 November 2019). "SA's biggest retailers commit to local textiles". Citypress. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
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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