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INVEST IN ETHEKWINI CBD FOR FUTURE GROWTH
The eThekwini Central Business District (CBD) is a critical economic hub for the City, the Province and the Country being home to crucial economic infrastructure such as Southern Africa’s busiest port, Durban Port, and the Durban Container Terminal (DCT), which is the...
LAUNCH OF THE DURBAN CHAMBER’S SIYABAKHULISA TRAINING PROGRAMME
Empowering Rural and Township 470 Micro-Businesses in KZN The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry launched its Siyabakhulisa Training Programme on Monday, 18 November 2019, at the Durban Chamber Conference Centre in the Lion Match Officer Park. The Durban Chamber...
KZN EXPORTER OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2019
TPT and Durban Chamber Announce Winners and Emerging Exporter Development Programme Durban – The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in partnership with Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), announced the winners of the 2019 KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Exporter of the Year...
THE IMPACT OF THE HEAVY RAINFALL IN ETHEKWINI AND KWAZULU-NATAL
The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry would like to express its sincere and heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the people who lost their lives as a result of the recent adverse weather conditions in KwaZulu-Natal, and our thoughts are with all...
ROOM FOR GROWTH FOR KZN TOURISM
KwaZulu-Natal and South Africa as a whole is blessed with an abundance of natural environmental beauty with diverse landscapes, ecosystems and species as well as rich biodiversity, being one of the most biologically diverse countries in the world. South Africa has a...
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE FORMAL AND INFORMAL ECONOMY
Our informal economy is diverse and vibrant. However, it needs to be formalised as, currently, it is mostly unregulated, unregistered, unprotected and untaxed. This poses a significant risk to the sustainability of informal businesses and severely limits their ability...
TRANSITION TO A GREEN ECONOMY SOCIAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY OF BUSINESS
The recent spate of devastating incidents of environmental pollution in eThekwini and KwaZulu-Natal such as the spill of oil and caustic soda wash into the Msunduzi river system by the Willowton Group, the noxious industrial gasses that escaped Safripol Durban's...
UNLOCKING KZN’S AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC POTENTIAL
The agricultural sector is of key strategic importance in unlocking the inclusive and sustainable economic growth and development goals of Durban and the Province as a whole. In 2018, the KZN agricultural sector contributed about...
THE SMME SECTOR IS CRITICAL TO SA’S ECONOMY
In South Africa, it is estimated that Small, Medium and Micro-sized Enterprises (SMMEs) make up 90% of formally registered businesses, employing about 60% of the labour force. In spite of this, SMMEs only contribute roughly 34% of GDP. This statistic is revealing when...
Developing an agile workforce
South Africa is experiencing low growth and constrained economic activity. Added to this is the ever in creasing pressure of the unemployment rate, which jumped to 29 percent in the second quarter of 2019. To reverse this trend, the annual economic growth needs to be...
- Comment on MTBPS 2020 by MR NIGEL WARD, PRESIDENT of the Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry NPC
eThekwini Economic Council Launch- PRESS RELEASE: OVER R50M INJECTION OF VALUE INTO ETHEKWINI BUSINESSES – Durban Chamber launches extended range of exclusive member benefits to help stimulate economic activity in the City
- JOINT PRESS RELEASE: TOYOTA AND DURBAN CHAMBER LAUNCH A JOINT SMME DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
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