Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies says government plans to accelerate the creation of black industrialists with an aim of creating 100 black industrialists by the end of the coming financial year. The Minister said this when the Economic Sectors, Read the full story
In a landmark breakthrough for South Africa’s quest for inclusive growth and radical economic transformation, the Ministers of Trade and Industry and of Economic Development announced in Cape Town on Tuesday that the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) will become a Read the full story
In 2015 the Department of Trade and Industry announced amendments to the broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) codes. As much as BEE has been a part of the business language for about 13 years, these latest changes reflect that Government Read the full story
The world’s largest mining conference is being held in Cape Town this week from the 6th to the 9th of February. The Mining Indaba is held annually and hosts influential stakeholders such as investors, mining professionals, government officials, financiers and Read the full story
For sustainable urban development in South Africa the support for the growth of small scale manufacturing enterprises is very important across the urban developing world, key barriers to development of these emerging manufacturing enterprises relate to access to finance, entrepreneurial Read the full story
Members of the Thoroughbred breeding community are leading the charge towards farm worker upliftment with an innovative Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) initiative that provides grooms working on South African stud farms with the tools they need to progress in their Read the full story
About R216 million will be spent on renovations at five industrial parks in the country, this is according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). On Tuesday, Minister Rob Davies, said a significant improvement in industrial development, economic growth Read the full story
The community of Steytleville outside Port Elizabeth will no longer have to face shortages of water in summer thanks to the newly launched R116 million water treatment plant. The water treatment plant was supported by the Department of Trade Read the full story
For all its size, mobile telephone giant, Vodacom, has only a measly 3.4% black shareholding. But this is set to change soon following the Public Investment Corporation’s move to sell its 15% stake in the company to a consortium of Read the full story
