Gauteng Business 2016 edition
The 2016 edition of the Gauteng Business and Investment Guide is the premier business and investment guide for the Gauteng province and the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency (GGDA). In addition to detailed profiles of key provincial organisations, including the GGDA, the Automotive Industry Development Corporation Centre (AIDC), the Gauteng Investment Centre, the Gauteng IDZ, the Gauteng ICT Park SEZ and Constitution Hill, this edition includes well-researched economic and demographic data on the province, as well as insights into the province’s five development corridors and the new industries and development nodes in these corridors; a focus on Gauteng as a global city region; and key growth sectors for the province.
The 2016 edition of the Gauteng Business and Investment Guide is the premier business and investment guide for the Gauteng province and the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency (GGDA). In addition to detailed profiles of key provincial organisations, including the GGDA, the Automotive Industry Development Corporation Centre (AIDC), the Gauteng Investment Centre, the Gauteng IDZ, the Gauteng ICT Park SEZ and Constitution Hill, this edition includes well-researched economic and demographic data on the province, as well as insights into the province’s five development corridors and the new industries and development nodes in these corridors; a focus on Gauteng as a global city region; and key growth sectors for the province.
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SPECIAL FEATURE<br />
Brics: the opportunities for <strong>Gauteng</strong><br />
Why South Africa’s smallest province stands most to gain from the country’s inclusion in<br />
the BRICS group of countries.<br />
One of the biggest advantages of South Africa’s relationship<br />
with BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) is that the<br />
country can benefit through the flow of foreign direct<br />
investment and increased trade.<br />
Bearing in mind that South Africa holds the key to the door<br />
through which BRICS, especially China, wants to do business with the<br />
rest of Africa, it has become even more important for South Africa<br />
to take the lead in Africa’s new industrial revolution – even amidst<br />
undertaking the huge task of radical economic transformation.<br />
Despite mixed reactions to our inclusion in BRICS, and some<br />
critics saying that other emerging countries with faster economic<br />
growth than South Africa could have been included, South Africa<br />
joined the bloc as the ‘jeweller of the world’ and as a ‘Gateway<br />
to Africa’, offering fellow BRICS members improved access to a<br />
very large consumer base in the African continent in addition to<br />
mineral resources, including oil<br />
and platinum.<br />
Although all regions in South<br />
Africa stand to benefit from the<br />
BRICS partnership, the economic,<br />
demographic and labour statistics<br />
for <strong>Gauteng</strong> give the province<br />
quite an advantage when it<br />
comes to economic benefaction<br />
in this regard.<br />
Also counting in favour of<br />
<strong>Gauteng</strong> is South Africa’s availability<br />
of vast natural resources<br />
such as gold, diamonds and platinum,<br />
excellent infrastructure, es-<br />
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