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  • A need to match skills with needs

    2/18/2010 4:11:47 PM

    SOUTH Africa has a skills shortage, but there are thousands of unemployed graduates across the country indicating the need for business, government and stakeholders to improve dialogue around human resource planning.

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  • 2nd Annual KZN Business Summit

    11/16/2009 4:03:03 PM

    Under the auspices of Mr mike Mabuyakhulu, MEC for the department of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDT), Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal (TIKZN) cordially invites you to participate in the Second Annual KwaZulu-Natal Business Summit.

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  • Agro Processing Success Stories

    9/3/2009 1:54:13 PM

    Huletts Sugar - now Tongaat-Hulett, is a company that is unequivocally linked with the province of KwaZulu-Natal; representing the past and future of business in the area. After surviving many difficult years; including world depression, droughts, several wars and an era of political turmoil, Huletts continued to prosper. The company now produces a comprehensive range of sugar products in South Africa; including industrial, white, brown and speciality sugars. The Huletts brand currently owns a 48% share of the retail market and in 2002 was voted by an independent survey as the fifth most admired food brand in South Africa, measured in terms of awareness as well as trust and confidence.

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  • Mining Success Stories

    9/3/2009 1:51:50 PM

    In the days of Shaka Zulu, King of the Zulu nation, the "black sands" of Zululand were known to contain useful minerals. Zulu warriors fashioned their weapons with iron by smelting the minerals found in these sand dunes. Today these minerals are used to manufacture a wide range of products essential to our modern lifestyle. IIlmenite, rutile and zircon are common minerals around the world, yet nowhere are they in such dense concentrations as across the coastal regions of northern KwaZulu-Natal, along the Zululand coast.

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  • Clothing Success Stories

    9/3/2009 1:49:52 PM

    The 23 March 1971 was the day nineteen-year old Patricia Naidoo walked into Playtex for her first day at work. She was soon promoted to Forelady and is now a Quality Supervisor in the design and development department. A whopping thirty-three years have passed and Patricia (now Mrs Ethirajulu) was recently presented with a Long Service Award.

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  • Tourism Success Stories

    9/3/2009 1:44:01 PM

    Over the past decade, the tourism industry in South Africa has grown beyond the expectations of even the most optimistic trend analyst. In fact, for the past eleven successive years, overseas visitor-arrival numbers have continued to increase, growing at a compound rate of no less that 17.5% per annum.

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