Archive for 'April,2012'
Lower Saxony delegation visits Buffalo City
From left: Dr Benedikt Schumacher, Les Holbrook and Gordon Thompson The German government is moving away from coal and nuclear-based energy generation to new renewable sources. The current renewable make-up of the energy mix in 2011 [...]
BKCOB / ADM Business Breakfast
The Amathole District Municipality (ADM) together with the Border-Kei Chamber of Business hosted an extremely successful and well-received investor business breakfast at the Hotel Osner on Wednesday, 18 April. The purpose of the business breakfast as [...]
No room for mediocrity
Regular overnight trips to Johannesburg tend to be an unavoidable feature of doing business in and from East London. But let’s face it – for the most parts, these commutes are little more than an unpleasant [...]
Do you qualify for funding from the National Empowerment Fund?
The National Empowerment Fund is a development finance institution set up by the Department of Trade and Industry to support Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment. Here are 10 things you MUST know about the NEF and how [...]
Are you on top of your retirement and estate planning?
It is important to plan in advance for the orderly and efficient transfer of assets, financial security for the senior generation, and adequate liquidity to fund estate duty. Our tax laws and rates are so onerous [...]
Move towards compulsory grading for EC tourism establishments
In the near future, all tourism products will be required to be graded by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa in order to operate and meet international tourism standards, says Sybert Liebenberg, Interim CEO of [...]
Golf tourism packs an economic punch
Golf’s unique tourism potential is almost limitless. Try inviting blue-chip travel trade or economic development executives to play a set with Raphael Nadal, a five-a-side with David Beckham or a bike ride with Lance Armstrong, and [...]
Elantra drives away with Car of the Year 2012
The elegant Elantra – Hyundai’s medium luxury sedan with its exciting and eye-catching “fluidic sculpture” styling and with driving dynamics to match – was named the winner at a SAGMJ and WesBank’s Car of the Year [...]
MBSA drives auto skills development
Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) is initiating a technical learnership to help address the shortage of appropriately skilled technicians in the country’s automotive sector. The three-year pilot programme will see MBSA collaborating with the Manufacturing, Engineering and [...]
Eastern Cape launches Auto Initiative
Growth in vehicle sales would continue, but this was likely to be at the entry level rather than the upper segments. Government, industry and organised labour in the Eastern Cape have pledged a new era of [...]
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