- Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

As the “Ultimate Business Network”, the Chamber provides platforms and opportunities for members to network and engage with one another regularly.

16 Apr 2019

2 Day Workshop: Chairing Disciplinary Hearings

Objectives and outcomes of the course are: • the purpose of a disciplinary hearing; • the role of all parties in the disciplinary hearing; • the disciplinary hearing process; • facilitating the leading of evidence and examination of witnesses; • procedural and substantive fairness; • rules of evidence; • deciding the merits of the case and drafting a finding; • considering mitigating and aggravating factors; • fair and unfair dismissals; • reasons for dismissal; and • choosing the appropriate sanction.

29 Mar 2019

Thought Leadership Business Forum

Presentation: Insight into how SOEs and Government can successfully manage Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contracts after financial close. This presentation will refer to matters post financial close of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Projects. Managing a PPP contract effectively is one of the most important aspects of ensuring the successful delivery of a PPP. If a PPP is managed efficiently, it will lead to the long-term success of the project. This presentation will highlight the following key areas which have in the past been identified as key elements of a PPP post financial close that have cause to either collapse or require interventions to save the project.

29 Mar 2019

NPO Business Forum

Presentation 1: Zoë-Life Zoë-Life is a Durban based organisation which has innovated several game-changing models and tools which address really difficult social and health challenges. Join us for a discussion about how we can innovate meaningfully in a way that we can bring health and healing to our country. Zoë-Life will share two of their innovations, and highlight the lessons learned along the way.

22 Mar 2019

Leveraging ICT Enabled for Businesses Growth

The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry would like to invite you to our inaugural Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Business Forum. As a future-focused organisation, the Durban Chamber has created this new forum in order to promote and achieve inclusive and sustainable economic development and growth through the adoption of ICT and technology by actively embracing technological advancement and innovation. This forum will provide a platform and opportunity for ICT decision-makers and stakeholders to engage on and discuss key topics related to ICT and technology.

19 Mar 2019

19 Mar 2019

Policy and Advocacy Exclusive

Presentation: Tax Ombud Presenter: Tax Ombud - Judge Bernard Makgabo Ngoepe About the Presenter Judge Bernard Makgabo Ngoepe practised for many years as an attorney and, later, as an advocate, and got appointed Senior Counsel (SC). He also served from 2006 - 2014 as a Judge and Vice-President of the African Union's African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, based in Tanzania. Judge Ngoepe has received numerous awards, citations and honours, including four honorary doctorate degrees and an honorary professorship in law. Currently, he is, amongst others: South Africa’s Tax Ombud; Chair, Appeals Panel of the Press Council; Chair, Appeals Board of the Council for Medical Schemes; Chair, Final Appeals Committee of the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa; Chair, Investigative Unit of Cricket South Africa. Judge Ngoepe has addressed many national and international conferences on tax and other issues.

12 Mar 2019

NAACAM SHOW 2019

NAACAM SHOW 2019 – AFRICA’S AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENT INITIATIVE The NAACAM Show 2019 is the premier automotive manufacturing growth, technology, transformation and stakeholder engagement forum on the African continent. Leaders of the automotive and component manufacturing sector, the largest manufacturing sector in South Africa and Africa, gather biennially to discuss, showcase, engage and network around the big issues and opportunities in the sector.

11 Mar 2019

07 Mar 2019

Environmental Business Forum

Presentation 1: Circular economy, smart recycling and waste beneficiation Presenter: Chris Whyte, Managing Director of USE-IT USE-IT is the Waste Materials Recovery Industry Development Programme in Durban which Chris has headed since 2009. USE-IT have facilitated almost 2600 jobs in the waste and recycling sector in the last 9 years, leveraged 4.5 times their funding in landfill savings to the municipality and leveraged an additional 11 times that funding in commercial project development. USE-IT has created a model for green economic development and innovation in South Africa that works. Dealing in every aspect of the waste stream, USE-IT explore, invent and create opportunities in waste beneficiation that touch on waste management, water management, infrastructure, energy, social upliftment, environmental benefit, economic development, low-carbon development, enterprise development and skills development – all key aspects of sustainability and all Impact Amplifiers for the New Economy.

28 Feb 2019

26 Feb 2019

SMME Business Forum

The acronym SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timely) has several different variations which can be used to provide a more comprehensive definition of goal setting. The new year is a great opportunity to take some time out of your business to reflect and review. Not only can it help you evaluate the effectiveness of your strategies from the previous year, but it can also help you set your sights on new goals and objectives for the year ahead to help you set yourself up for business success in 2019. Your goals should form part of your business plan and will likely become your business objectives”.

20 Feb 2019

The State of the eThekwini Economy

Presentation 1: State of the eThekwini Economy Looking back on 2018, and forward into 2019. The Durban Chamber is excited to be a strategic partner in the development of the Durban EDGE data portal! It is an exciting chance for us to finally have Durban’s key economic information and data online, so that it is more accessible to users, and has a better reach. Once it is up and running, Durban will be the first city in South Africa to have a live, interactive open data and information portal. Here more about this at the forum.

20 Feb 2019

19 Feb 2019

19 Feb 2019

15 Feb 2019

15 Feb 2019

14 Feb 2019

HR Business Forum

You are invited to attend the first Human Resources (HR) Forum for 2019, we would like to take this opportunity to thank our current members and participants for your continued support and contribution to this forum as well as to welcome new members. Join us as we discuss and share current and relevant HR-related information on crucial matters such as salary Increases and the National Minimum Wage Act.

06 Feb 2019

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