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  • TIKZN Draws Prospective Investors to Fundamental Seminar in Dubai

    2011/11/07 12:00:00 AM

    Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal (TIKZN) in partnership with Aura Events International, an international events and management agency based in Dubai, will be hosting the KZN Investment Seminar, in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on 17 November 2011.TIKZN will also host local KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) businesses as part of the KZN delegation led by Mr Zamo Gwala, Chief Executive Officer, Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal.

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  • Maritime Summit on the Economic Value of the Value of Durban as a Port City

    2011/10/17 12:00:00 AM

    October is National Transport month and this year, the focus falls on job creation and service delivery. Port cities in the world are gateways for capital investment, job creation and technology and therefore have a critical role to play in economic development and growth and serve as a conduit of the growing world market.

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  • TIKZN developing new markets for KZN traders

    2011/09/23 12:00:00 AM

    Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal (TIKZN), will be heading towards Angola from 26 – 30 September 2011 on a trade mission along with approximately 10 KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) based companies who are keen to gain business linkages in Luanda and Benguela. The delegation will be led by the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti). These businesses hail from the construction, civil engineering, retail, information communication technology, clearing and forwarding sectors.

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  • A First for South Africa

    2011/05/06 12:34:14 PM

    The Province of KwaZulu-Natal will be the first to launch an Investment Protocol handbook in South Africa.

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  • A need to match skills with needs

    2010/02/18 04:11:47 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

    2009/11/16 04:03:03 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

    2009/09/03 01:54:13 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

    2009/09/03 01:51:50 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

    2009/09/03 01:49:52 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

    2009/09/03 01:44:01 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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