Mar 14, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Manufacturing
SOUTH Africa’s advanced manufacturing progress will be showcased at the inaugural African Advanced Manufacturing and Composites Show in Port Elizabeth in November. Details of the event – which includes an exhibition, conferences, learning tours and...
Mar 14, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Property – Commercial & Industrial, SMME Development & Support
LOCAL business Second Office, the first virtual office, meeting and conference space in East London, announced this week that their conferencing facility has just received a 4-star rating by the Tourism Grading Council of SA (TGCSA) under the Meetings, Exhibitions,...
Mar 14, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Heating, Cooling & Ventilation
EXHIBITORS from more than 100 leading heating, energy, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HEVAC&R) brands, both local and international, have already confirmed their attendance at this year’s FRIGAIR Expo. The exhibition, organised in partnership...
Mar 14, 2018 | Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News, SMME Development & Support
WITH all the hype around “FinTech” and the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”, large banks around the world and in South Africa are grappling with the challenge of prioritising strategies that will ensure not only their financial growth, but their survival as...
Mar 14, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Government & Municipal
IN the same week as the world marked International Women’s Day on 8 March, the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) learnt that one of its women board members had been appointed to the State Capture Commission. Advocate Thandi Norman has been associated with the...
Mar 14, 2018 | Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News
THE Value Added Tax (VAT) increase to 15% is due to come into effect on 1 April this year. This can have far-reaching implications for the highly complex South African healthcare funding industry, which is supported with back-end information systems that consumers are...
Mar 14, 2018 | Automation & Robotics, Business Tech, EC Industrial & Business News
ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) may be the last weapon left to recover the billions of rand looted from the South African treasury, allegedly by the Gupta family and their captured government cohorts, That’s according to Dr Duncan Coulter, Deputy Head of Department at...
Mar 14, 2018 | Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News
THE Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA), as part of the organisation’s 20th anniversary celebration, has announced the launch of the inaugural SAVCA Industry Awards. The annual awards will recognise portfolio companies that have...
Mar 14, 2018 | Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News
EARLIER this year, former President Jacob Zuma signed the new Insurance Bill (now referred to as the Insurance Act) into law. The aims of the bill include increasing low-income earners’ accessibility to insurance products and fostering transformation in the sector....
