Western Cape Business 2019 edition

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New opportunities for
investors in the West Coast
New opportunities are emerging in specific sectors of the West Coast district. With the N7
being upgraded, the time it takes to travel from Malmesbury to Cape Town for instance
is less than from Paarl, Somerset West or Stellenbosch. Businesses can serve the Cape
Town market while enjoying lower operating costs, an excellent work ethic, lower crime and
reduced risk with excellent local government support. Developers are providing new industrial,
commercial and residential property.
Protein, dairy and other food producers are moving closer to their markets to reduce
transportation costs. They remain outside the metro boundaries, to gain cost advantages.
Increasing numbers of logistics firms recognise the strategic location. Vehicle and equipment
suppliers are growing as services sector. The number of mines are increasing in Matzikama and
a breakthrough with abalone production holds huge promise for supplying a lucrative market.
In Cederberg the dam wall is being raised, meaning the bottleneck to agricultural growth is
reduced. The Saldanha Industrial Development Zone, which is located at the deep-water port,
includes a unique package of government incentives. The aquaculture sector near Saldana Bay is
growing steadily with much more potential as markets are lucrative and the product competitive.
The complete region offers a large variety of world-class tourism attractions, leisure activities
and events. A great place to live, work and play.
Swartland Municipality
Swartland Municipality covers an area of 3 700 square kilometres, stretching from
the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Berg River in the east. To the south it borders
the City of Cape Town, to the east the Drakenstein Municipality, to the north the
Bergrivier Municipality and to the north-east Saldanha Bay Municipality. In 2016
the estimated population was 133 000. Swartland has displayed resilient economic
growth through some trying market conditions. The main competitive advantages are strategic
location, low costs, low risk, a municipality that values business and growing investor confidence.
Add to this the benefits of a sophisticated city that is still close enough to leverage when needed,
while employees get to enjoy the best of both country life and the city. Both businesses and citizens
increasingly view the Swartland as a good place to locate. Investment growth is expected from
sectors such as protein, dairy, agro-processing, transport, logistics, retail, services and construction
sectors. Phase 1 of the Schoonspruit industrial development consisting of 13 erven has become
available recently. www.swartland.org.za
Bergrivier Municipality
Situated north of Saldanha Bay, the Bergriver region is particularly suited to
agriculture. Livestock, fruit, vegetables and flowers are farmed in the
area and there are opportunities in kelp farming and processing. The
large cement factory and smaller salt-reclamation works are indicators of
business development opportunities related to mining. There are opportunities in
agro-processing and the development of an agricultural college in the area. Tourism
is becoming one of the economic drivers in the area, especially eco-tourism. www.bergmun.org.za
If you have your eye on growth,
you should invest on the West Coast!
Find out more at www.westcoastdm.co.za

MATZIKAMA
Vredenberg
SALDANHA
BAY
Vredendal
BERGRIVIER
Piketberg
Moorreesburg
SWARTLAND
Clanwilliam
CEDERBERG
Langeberg
Cederberg Municipality
Blessed by nature, rich in
heritage and warm-hearted
people, the Cederberg is
a great place for tourism
all year round. Cederberg boasts a beautiful and
varying landscape that includes the Cederberg
Mountains, valleys and a coastline with a multitude of
attractions and activities. The region is also becoming
increasingly popular as an events destination. The area
is rich in flowers and fynbos, including Rooibos, which
makes this the heart of the international Rooibos tea
industry. The Clanwilliam Dam wall is being raised,
which will soon provide more water, which will boost
agricultural output and downstream value-adding
enterprises. Investment opportunities relating to the
Oceans Economy are encouraged, especially in the
Lamberts Bay and Elands Bay areas.
www.cederbergmun.gov.za
Matzikama Municipality
Approximately 240km north of
Cape Town, the Matzikama region
has abundant water and fertile soil
and therefore a thriving vegetable,
fruit and wine farming economy.
Investors visiting the region will
find opportunities in aquaculture
(especially abalone), fishing, mining, manufacturing,
agriculture and property development.
www.matzikamamun.co.za
Saldanha Bay Municipality
Saldanha Bay Municipality is approximately 140km north of Cape Town and
covers an area of 2 015km2 and has 238km of coastline. The Saldanha Bay
Municipal area is endowed with natural and locational characteristics which
provides opportunity for the area to directly compete in the international
arena for investment and development. The Provincial Treasury’s socioeconomic
profile of Saldanha Bay Municipality indicates that Saldanha Bay is the
fastest-growing municipality in the district. The West Coast District Municipality’s SDF (2014) identifies
Saldanha Bay as a Major Regional Growth Centre. The natural deep-water harbour provides comparative
advantages around which globally competitive and job-rich sectors can be built. The priority sectors
currently in the area are Aquaculture and Fishing, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas as well as Tourism and all of
these sectors are ocean-linked. Saldanha Bay is ideally positioned to serve the booming African offshore
oil and gas industry. This boom has resulted in the establishment of an Industrial Development Zone (IDZ)
in Saldanha Bay as a catalyst to expand the potential of the harbour and launch an Oil and Gas services
cluster to attract international investment. Exciting new projects relating to capital investment and
catalytic infrastructure which are linked to the IDZ have emerged. The coastal settlement areas such as
Langebaan and Paternoster have tourism development potential. The onset of the drought necessitated
the Municipality to shift funding towards the water management function in 2017/18 and 2018/19.
www.sbm.gov.za

Welcome to the Cape
Winelands District
The Cape Winelands District Municipality
(CWDM) is one of five district
municipalities in the Western Cape
Province. The district covers an area of
22 309 km2 and is divided into five subdistricts,
each with their own local municipality.
These are Stellenbosch, Drakenstein,
Witzenberg, Breede Valley and the Langeberg.
The district is the second most populace area
in the Province, with 895 529 people calling the
area home. Together with this, the citizens are
also the largest economic contributers after the
City of Cape Town.
The region is famous for its spectacular
scenery of beautiful mountains and valleys, and
wine and fruit estates, all of which attract large
numbers of local and foreign tourists.
Economy
• The Cape Winelands District GDP grew from
R35.2-billion in 2007 to R43.7-billion in 2016.
• The Drakenstein area was the largest contributor
to the district GDP in 2016, at R14.3-billion.
• The wholesale, retail, catering and
accommodation sectors remained the largest
employer, employing 85 339 people.
• In 2016 the finance, real estate and business
service sectors were the largest contributor to
GDP, accounting for 24.3%.
• The food, beverage and tobacco sub-sectors
were the largest contributor to manufacturing,
with 42%.
• The wholesale and retail trade subsector was
the largest contributor to the services sector,
accounting for 25%.
Trade
In 2017, the Cape Winelands District was a net
exporter of goods to the value of R28.9-billion
and imported goods valued at a R28.2-billion. This
produced a trade surplus of R660-million. The United
Kingdom was the largest destination market for
products in 2017, accounting for 13.2% of exports,
with a value of R3.9-billion. The leading source market
for the Cape Winelands was Saudi Arabia, accounting
for 22.1%, with a value of R6.2-billion. Wine was the
leading export product from the region, accounting
for 22.6%, with a value of R6-billion. Citrus fruit and
grapes ranked second and third, accounting for 13.8%
and 12.1% respectively.
Reasons why you should invest in the Cape
Winelands
The Cape Winelands District has the finest wines
in the country and has the following strengths and
advantages that enable it to stimulate growth and
expansion of the regional economy:
• A well-developed road and rail network that
provides easy access to markets
• Easy access to Cape Town International Airport and
the Port of Cape Town
• A diverse choice of urban and rural sites
• Educational institutions and centres of research
excellence such as the University of Stellenbosch
and the Agricultural Research Council

• Nationally and internationally renowned special
educational institutions
• The area offers an exceptionable quality of life, not
only in the easy access to the natural areas that offer
hiking, biking, birding, camping and even glamping
options, but the area offers excellent schools and
sporting facilities
• The region is one of the most visited regions.
CWDM Economic Development Programmes
The tourism sector has been identified as a growing sector
for the Cape Winelands region. The CWDM is working
together with stakeholders to ensure sustainable growth
for the tourism industry. Several programmes are currently
being implemented to maximise the potential for the
tourism industry.
Township Tourism
This project is an intervention by the CWDM in ensuring
that tourism routes become profitable and sustainable.
The programme exposes registered tour guides to all
the products and new routes on offer. It also ensures
that smaller tour guide companies are afforded the
opportunity to link with established businesses and
routes. The project consists of four phases:
• Forging partnerships with existing routes
• Route development support
• Route visits and education
• Destination and wayfinding signage.
The CWDM identified that municipalities needed
assistance in developing their township tourism routes
and so agreements have been signed between CWDM
and these municipalities. Most tourism businesses
within the CWDM are challenged with obtaining
appropriate tourism road signage. The CWDM aims to
assists in this regard, as well developing route maps to
assist in marketing.
Regional Tourism Mobile App
The Cape Winelands District developed 13 tourism apps
that are populated by the Local Tourism Associations with
a variety of activities, news and routes. The Municipality’s
District App is different from the local tourism town apps
in that it focusses on routes, attractions and events. Local
Tourism Associations provided the CWDM with all their
routes and this was then populated within the CWD App.
The routes are categorised under: Adventure Routes, Art
Routes, Culinary Routes, Culture Routes, Historical Routes,
Olive Routes and Wine Routes.
To ensure optimal utilisation of the application the
CWDM has provided training to both the CWDM
officials and the Local Tourism Associations.
Missions, Exhibitions and Trade Shows
CWDM works closely with the Local Tourism
Associations in the region to market the Cape
Winelands as a tourism and investment destination
domestically and internationally. This is to ensure
focused, effective and efficient tourism marketing.
The main objective is to increase the number of
tourists and to attract investment into the Cape
Winelands region.
The CWDM takes part in trade shows and
exhibitions to provide a platform for businesses within
the district to market their products and services to
buyers, consumers and investors.
Through the trade shows and exhibitions, a
number of small, micro and medium enterprises and
established businesses that have attended with the
CWDM have managed to secure sustainable markets
and found distributing agents.

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CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Western Cape Business 2019 Edition
Introduction
Foreword12
Western Cape Business is a unique guide to business,
investment and tourism in the Western Cape.
Special features
Regional overview 14
Investors and tourists continue to visit the Western Cape and
they are impressed by what they see.
The Maritime Economy 40
Half-a-billion rand has been spent to make Saldanha ready for
investment.
Tourism and events 46
The Western Cape is world class in many categories.
Powering the province 54
The Western Cape is moving away from fossil fuels.
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Specialisation programme in plumbing
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Centres of Specialisation (CoS) is a national
programme aimed at producing:
• A skilled and capable workforce to support
inclusive economic growth
• Increased availability of intermediate-level
technical skills
• Increased delivery of qualified artisans in 13
priority trades
• Improved capacity of public TVET colleges to
train in skills in demand by industry.
How does it work?
Dual system apprenticeships that combine:
• Technical education at a TVET college
• Simulated practical training
• Lots of authentic work experience in a single,
integrated learning programme with employers
in the driver’s seat.
Who is involved?
It’s a partnership between the National Department
of Higher Education and Training and business
associations from the private sector, focusing on
13 priority trades.
The College of Cape Town has been appointed
as Centres of Specialisation for Plumbing and
Automotive Motor Mechanics.
Change technical skills training in your company
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these benefits through CoS:
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• Opportunity to shape college curriculum, thereby
improving future supply of suitable workers.
• After apprenticeships:
• Skilled employees, trained to industry
standards and acculturated to your company
– immediately productive
• Lower-risk and lower cost of recruitment
• Enhanced employee retention.
To participate in the Centres of Specialisation initiative
and get these benefits, you need to:
• Be located within 25km of the College of Cape
Town
• Be willing to host at least one apprentice in the
trade assigned to the College of Cape Town for
a three-year apprenticeship; the theory and
practical components of the curriculum will be
covered at the college, while your company will
be responsible for providing structured work
experience supervised by an artisan qualified
in that trade
• Participate in a limited number of planning and
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college and DHET personnel aimed at sharing
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CONTENTS
Economic sectors
Agriculture 76
The capacity of the Clanwilliam Dam is set to double.
Wine and grapes 78
Resilience is now part of the grape-growing story.
Fishing 84
Black owners are getting a hand on the tiller.
Mining86
A rare earths feasibility study is underway.
Oil and gas 88
Chevron deal means investment for Cape refinery.
Water 91
Lessons for the world from Cape Town’s water crisis.
Manufacturing 94
Diesel locomotive engines are powering up in Montague
Gardens.
Construction and property development 96
Cape Town aims to integrate housing and transport planning.
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Metropolitan/District Municipality
Boundary
Local Municipality Boundary
District Municipality
Local Municipality
CONTENTS
Banking and financial services 100
Japanese and French companies are investing.
Development finance and SMME support 102
The Centre for Entrepreneurship has opened at False Bay
TVET College.
Education and training 104
An investment company is banking on private schooling.
Business process outsourcing 112
New jobs are coming on line.
Information and communications technology 113
Amazon and Microsoft have chosen Cape Town.
Government
Western Cape Provincial Government 114
An overview of the Western Cape Provincial
Government departments.
Western Cape Local Government 115
An overview of the Western Cape municipalities.
Reference
Sector contents 74
Index120
Municipalities in the Western Cape
WCDMA01
Northern Cape
Matzikama
Garden Route
Oudtshoorn
Maps
Western Cape municipal map. 19
Saldanha
Bay
Bergrivier
Cederberg
West Coast
WCDMA02
Laingsburg
Beaufort West
Central Karoo
Prince Albert
WCDMA05
Eastern Cape
Western Cape provincial map. 116
City of
Cape Town
Metropolitan
Municipality
Witzenberg
Swartland
Cape Winelands
Breede Valley
Drakenstein
Langeberg
Stellenbosch
Theewaterskloof
Swellendam
Overberg
Oudtshoorn
Kannaland
WCDMA04
Garden Route
George Knysna Bitou
Mossel Bay
Hessequa
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Overstrand
Cape Agulhas
WCDMA03
INDIAN OCEAN
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INTERVIEW
Selfmed Medical Scheme
Christo Becker, the Principal Officer at Selfmed Medical Scheme,
outlines the advantages of a self-administered scheme.
Christo Becker
BIOGRAPHY
Christo started his 21-year career
in healthcare as a paramedic in
Fire and Disaster Management
Services. In 2001 he completed
an MBA with the intention of
moving his career towards
hospital management. He has
worked as hospital manager
in several private facilities.
His passion for people and
strategy has ensured that the
hospitals he has managed have
grown rapidly while focusing
on sustainability. With selfmotivation
and a commitment to
continual improvement, Christo
implements positive changemanagement.
How did Selfmed begin and how has it evolved?
The Scheme initially formed part of the Sanlam Life Insurance stable, created
in 1965 and formally registered in 1972. This makes Selfmed one of the most
experienced medical aid schemes in the industry. At Selfmed we have a handson
approach, and this resulted in our taking control of our own Client Services
Centre, or Excellence Centre in 2006. We thereafter progressed to taking over
the full administration function in 2010; also recently bringing our Managed
Healthcare inhouse.
What is your market?
Historically membership comprised individuals and their families. The introduction
of the Selfnet options in 2015 and 2016 allowed us to reach a younger
audience. This was also the opportunity to branch out into corporate marketing,
offering membership to blue-collar employees. We have seen great success in
this area.
Is there flexibility for clients?
The scheme currently has five products: Selfmed 80%, Med Elite, Selfsure, Med
XXI, and Selfnet and Selfnet Essential. Each product is designed specifically for
a life stage, as the needs of a member changes. As the person advances in life
and starts a family they will move towards the Med XXI or Selfsure options, for
example, which have a wider range of benefits relevant to a young family.
How is Selfmed handling ever-rising costs?
The biggest challenge facing the healthcare industry is the significant rise in
healthcare costs, with healthcare inflation exceeding general inflation. This
compels us to proactively introduce mechanisms to manage these costs. Selfmed
is applying machine learning to the claims database to draw a more accurate
picture of a member’s specific needs. The information can then be used to
engage members on an individual basis – if we can intervene early it is to the
benefit of all parties.
How does Selfmed Medical Scheme differentiate from its
competitors?
In a traditional medical aid/administrator environment all administered functions
rest with an administrator. As such, a medical aid would be fully dependent on
its outsourced administrator to inform it of any issues relating to its members.
Being fully self-administered allows Selfmed to take total ownership of all its
member interactions and address any administrative problems or complaints
immediately. We do not have an electronic routing system; you speak to an
individual. This personalised hands-on approach is fundamental to our model
of building a credible member experience.
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Charlene Steynberg and
Natalie Koopman
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Western Cape Business
A unique guide to business, investment and tourism
in the Western Cape.
The 2019 edition of Western Cape Business is the 12th issue
of this highly successful publication that, since its launch
in 2005, has established itself as the premier business and
investment guide for the Western Province.
The Western Cape has varied investment and business opportunities.
In addition to the regular articles providing insight into each of the
key economic sectors of the province, there are special features in this
journal on the big impact which the relatively new maritime sector is
having, together with tourism and events and renewable energy. The
potential for independent generation is an exciting new avenue for local
authorities. Western Cape Business contains interviews and messages
from business leaders from Accelerate Cape Town, the Cape Chamber
of Commerce and the Western Cape Business Opportunities Forum. Tim
Harris, the CEO of Wesgro, outlines the successful investment attraction
strategies that his organisation has been adopting.
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as well as our flagship South African Business title.
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A REGIONAL OVERVIEW OF THE
WESTERN CAPE
PROVINCE

Investors and tourists continue to visit the Western Cape and they are impressed
by what they see.
By John Young
Emerging markets, South Africa and the
Western Cape have endured some tough
times in recent months and years, and yet
tourists and investors keep coming back
to the province which straddles the Atlantic and
Indian oceans at the tip of Africa.
There are many reasons for this. Good
infrastructure, outstanding educational and
research institutions, superb beaches and
historical tourist attractions, and plentiful
agricultural produce are among them. But good
policies at provincial and city level are also playing

SPECIAL FEATURE
their part in attracting visitors and new partners.
Underpinning the economic planning of
the Western Cape Provincial Government is a
commitment to getting four major things right.
Called “enablers”, these are issues that must be
looked after for other economic plans to work.
The four are water, energy, broadband and skills
development. On this sound footing, various
agencies of the provincial government and the
municipalities of the province have developed a
range of plans designed to attract investors, and
they are proving attractive.
The Western Cape is also the country’s bestperforming
province in terms of audits. Of 55
provincial departments, municipalities and public
entities for the 2016/17 year, 44 received clean audits.
This kind of performance helps to boost investor
confidence.
Another thing that has been attracting the
attention of the world is the astonishing display of
resilience by the citizens of Cape Town in getting
through a long-term drought. As the dreaded “Day
Zero” approached, news items started appearing on
television screens from Zurich to Zagreb about the
impending calamity.
The fact that Cape Town survived was
applauded but there were serious conservation
issues that arose, not least because people in
other parts of world quickly realised that what
was happening in Cape Town could easily be
replicated anywhere. The world needed to
confront a “new normal”.
Greater Cape Town’s ability to reduce water
usage by more than half was nothing short of
remarkable. “Resilience” has become a new
buzzword and a selling point for the city and
the province. A tourism campaign #ItsAllStillHere
mixes enticing pictures of surfers cutting through
beautiful waves with reminders of how Cape Town
had found a way to come through the extreme
dry spell.
Within the province, economic confidence is
improving. Alan Winde, then MEC for Economic
Development and Tourism, noted in his budget
speech in March 2018 that business confidence had
reached the 50-point mark, the highest level since
2016 (Bureau for Economic Research).
Investment and trade
Between 2014 and 2018, the Western Cape received
more than R7.2-billion in investments and trade
deals to the value of R11.1-billion were closed (SOPA).
The provincial government’s African Expansion
Programme has secured R691-million in deals so far.
The Western Cape has had an Invest SA One
Stop Shop since September 2017. The UK’s
International Trade Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, was
the first international minister to visit the facility,
which was interesting in that Britain’s position in
relation to trade with the world is about to undergo
a massive change because of its withdrawal from
the European Union.
In the period 1997-2017, fully a quarter of foreign
direct investment (FDI) into the Western Cape came
from the UK. Cape Town is the only African city on
the FDI ranking chart of fDi Intelligence, a division
of the Financial Times. The list ranks which cities
have the best foreign direct investment strategies.
Cape Town’s Economic Growth Strategy includes
the creation of a unit (Invest Cape Town) to promote
investment, upgrading infrastructure, pursuing
broadband rollout, improving energy supply and
improving direct air links between the city and the world.
Many of these strategies are pursued with partners.
During Dr Fox’s visit, he met with companies in
sectors that have traded with the UK for decades
such as fruit, wine and tourism, but he also was also
exposed to new areas in which the Western Cape
is growing its expertise, creative, tech and service
industries.
Since Britain’s vote to the leave the EU, trade
delegations into South Africa from countries like
France and Italy have increased.
The Invest SA One Stop Shop Western Cape is
an intergovernmental facility operated by Wesgro,
in conjunction with the Department of Trade and
Industry (dti) and the Western Cape Provincial
Government, that aims to provide strategic guidance,
and reduce regulatory inefficiencies and red tape.
DEDAT has also established a Red Tape Reduction
Unit to smooth the path of investors and businesses
wanting to expand.
Wesgro is the Western Cape’s official tourism,
trade and investment promotion agency. In its
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SPECIAL FEATURE
annual review for 2017/18, Wesgro reported that the
Western Cape will receive at least R10.2-billion into
the regional economy over five years. Wesgro’s units
reported some highlights:
• International Trade Promotion Unit: 53 business
agreements valued at R2.8-billion over five years.
• Investment Promotion Unit: Investments valued
at R2.2-billion, including a major investment from
manufacturer Pegas Nonwovens.
• Agribusiness Investment Unit: Six investments worth
R756-million. Pizza Hut has invested R300-million.
• Film and Media Promotion Unit: In 2017/18,
productions worth R1.9-billion were secured.
• Cape Town and Western Cape Convention Bureau:
33 bids with a projected economic impact of
R453-million were secured.
• Cape Town Air Access: In three years, an additional
750 000 inbound seats have been secured on direct
flights to Cape Town. This is a partnership with the
City of Cape Town, the Western Cape Provincial
Government, South African Tourism, Cape Town
Tourism, Airports Company South Africa and private
companies.
Wesgro’s efforts have not been limited to the Cape
Metropole. Investor conferences have been held in
the Cape Winelands, the West Coast and the Garden
Route to highlight the opportunities of each region.
At the Garden Route conference, Wesgro CEO Tim
Harris noted that between 2006 and 2015 the region’s
economy grew at an average rate of 4.8% and exports
grew by 45%.
The hotel and golf courses on the estate at Fancourt,
pictured on the first page of this article, are among the
top attractions of George and the Garden Route.
Regional economy
Finance, business services and real estate combined
contribute 28% to the gross domestic product (GDP)
of the Western Cape. The financial services and
insurance sector are key components of the economy.
Many of South Africa’s biggest companies have their
headquarters in Cape Town. Asset management and
venture capital companies have been growing steadily.
Although agriculture only accounts for 4.3% of
SOME EXPORT FACTS
Malaysia mostly imports apples, pears
and quinces. In 2015, these fruits
alone earned $51.1-million, citrus fruit
$18.5-million and grapes $10.7-million.
Singapore’s top product from the
Western Cape in 2016 was refined
petroleum oils and oils obtained from
bituminous minerals at a value of
$14.3-million, followed by apples, pears
and quinces at $13.1-million.
A trade mission involving 15 Western
Cape companies to Ethiopia in 2017
secured R200-million in export deals.
Ethiopian Airlines has increased its
flights to Cape Town to 10 times per
week.
GDP on its own, the sector is responsible for
the fruit and vegetables that contribute to agriprocessing
which accounts for nearly 40% of
the province’s export basket. (Agri-processing
accounts for 8.1% of GDP.) Citrus, wine, apples
and pears, grapes, fruit juice, fruit and nuts and
tobacco all appear in the top 10 of the province’s
exports. Seventy percent of South Africa’s
beverage exports come from the Western Cape.
Grapes and wine sales to Europe remain very
strong but the Chinese market is becoming
increasingly important.
Refined petroleum was the single biggest
earner for the Western Cape in 2015, with exports
valued at R18.2-billion (Wesgro).
The province has a diverse manufacturing
sector ranging from textiles, clothing, footwear
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SPECIAL FEATURE
and furniture to coke and refined petroleum
products. Excluding agri-processing, other
manufacturing makes up 6.9% of GDP.
Regions
The province is divided into one metropolitan
municipality and five district municipalities
Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality
Cape Town is a culturally diverse and dynamic
metropolis set among beautiful beaches and
winelands with the spectacular Table Mountain as
a backdrop. The city is the engine of the regional
economy, with most of the Western Cape’s
heavy and medium industry located within the
metropolitan area of Cape Town.
The largest sector in the city’s economy is the
financial and business services industry. The opening
of a branch of the JSE in the city is a sign that this
sector continues to grow, as is the decision of more
asset managers to move their headquarters to Cape
Town. The tourism, retail, construction and property
sectors have been doing well for many years. The
city has a population of 3.2-million and contributes
76% of the regional gross domestic product.
Cape Town is home to the nation’s parliament
and is the site of two World Heritage Sites: the
Cape Floral Region (including Table Mountain) and
Robben Island. The Cape comprises only half a
percent of the landmass of Africa yet the Cape
Floral Region accounts for nearly 20% of the flora
of the continent. Robben Island was the site of
the incarceration of the most prominent political
prisoners during the apartheid era, including
Nelson Mandela.
Cape Town has been welcoming the world in
increasing numbers since Mandela’s release in 1990,
and it is now regarded as one of the world’s great
tourist destinations.
The Port of Cape Town is ideally situated at the
crossroads of some of the world’s most important
trade routes. The transport, maritime and logistics
sector is consequently very important. Bunkering
and ship repair are other vital port facilities, and the
boat repair and boat building industries continue to
grow. The port plays a major role in exporting the
province’s excellent fruit, wine and other agricultural
products to international markets.
Cape Town has a diverse manufacturing sector,
with petroleum products, food and beverages, and
metals and metal products being major sectors.
Growth sectors include the film industry, ICT and
other tech specialities such as fintech and medical
diagnostics.
West Coast District Municipality
Towns: Saldanha Bay, Malmesbury, Clanwilliam,
Vredenburg, Moorreesburg.
The economy of this region ranges from manufacturing
in Saldanha, Atlantis and Malmesbury
to agriculture and forestry centred on inland
towns like Moorreesburg (wheat), Cedarberg
(forestry) and Citrusdal. Cement is made in
Riebeeck West and Piketberg and fishing takes
place all along the coast. Rooibos tea and shoes
are made in Clanwilliam. The remote mission
station of Wupperthal is famous for its veldskoens.
The Port of Saldanha Bay is the principal
port for the export of iron ore and with the impending
declaration of the Saldanha Industrial
Development Zone, is gearing up to service
the continent’s oil and gas industry and to be
a steel manufacturing hub. Mineral sands are
mined north of Saldanha.
Cape Winelands District Municipality
Towns: Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester, Robertson,
Wellington, Franschhoek.
Nearly 70% of South Africa’s wine comes from
this area. Vineyards also attract many tourists
but tourism in the Winelands includes wellness
spas, adventure tourism and game farms.
Manufacturing is concentrated on processing
grapes and fruit into wine, juice, brandy, dried
and tinned fruit products. Dairy manufacturer
Parmalat has an award-winning cheese-making
facility in Bonnievale. Robertson is known for roses
and thoroughbred horses. Stellenbosch is home
to its eponymous university which is becoming
synonymous with tech start-ups and innovation.
Several large companies, such as PSG Group, have
its headquarters in the town.
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Overberg District Municipality
Towns: Caledon, Bredasdorp, Hermanus,
Swellendam, Cape Agulhas.
The Overberg contains the southernmost tip of
Africa (Cape Agulhas), the oldest mission station in
South Africa (Genadendal), a large casino resort (in
Caledon) and some of the best whale viewing in
the world (Whale Coast). It also hosts some highquality
fruit farms in the Ceres Valley and rural
villages that are very popular with tourists such as
Barrydale and Greyton. Agriculture is the principal
economic activity of the region and the services
sector is strong.
Garden Route District Municipality
Towns: George, Oudtshoorn, Calitzdorp, Knysna,
Mossel Bay, Plettenberg Bay.
The area has two important tourist names: the
Garden Route on the coast and the Klein Karoo
between the mountain ranges. Route 62 is a
popular route which ends (or starts) in Oudtshoorn,
home of the Cango Caves. A report by the Bureau
for Economic Research has found that the Garden
Route DM is one of the best-performing regions
because of tourism. The area is famous for fine
golf courses and golf estates. Mossel Bay, where
the slipway in the harbour has received a multimillion-rand
upgrade, hosts a large gas-processing
plant while George is a node of manufacturing,
trade and administration. The Klein Karoo has its
own wine route and port, cheese and brandy are
produced. Fruit, vegetables and ostriches are other
main products.
Central Karoo District Municipality
Towns: Beaufort West, Laingsburg,
Prince Albert.
The largest district in the province has the smallest
population, a reflection of the semi-desert
conditions: 71 000 people live on 38 000km².
Sheep farming predominates and there are plans to
introduce agri-parks to towns in the region. Beaufort
West is strategically positioned on the N1 highway
which links Cape Town with the interior of South
Africa. The nearby Karoo National Park has recently
acquired some lions and Prince Albert is a quaint
town situated in the shadow of the Swartberg
Mountain, close to the dramatic portals that link
the Karoo to the Klein Karoo: Seweweekspoort, the
Swartberg Pass and Meiringspoort.
Municipalities in the Western Cape
WCDMA01
Northern Cape
Metropolitan/District Municipality
Boundary
Local Municipality Boundary
District Municipality
Local Municipality
Garden Route
Oudtshoorn
Matzikama
WCDMA05
Cederberg
Beaufort West
West Coast
Central Karoo
Bergrivier
WCDMA02
Saldanha
Bay
Swartland
City of
Cape Town
Metropolitan
Municipality
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Witzenberg
Cape Winelands
Breede Valley
Drakenstein
Langeberg
Stellenbosch
Theewaterskloof
Swellendam
Overberg
Cape Agulhas
WCDMA03
Overstrand
Laingsburg
Kannaland
Hessequa
Prince Albert
Oudtshoorn
WCDMA04
Garden Route
George Knysna Bitou
Mossel Bay
INDIAN OCEAN
Eastern Cape
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BIOGRAPHY
Mr Solly Fourie, Head of the Department of Economic Development
and Tourism in the Western Cape.
Mr Fourie holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree, an Honours Degree
and Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of
Stellenbosch Business School.
Before Mr Fourie joined the Western Cape Government in 2010, he
spent nearly 30 years in the Financial Services sector. Mr Fourie’s
unique blend of experiences, in both the public and private sectors
of the South African economy, enable him to bring a fresh business
approach to the public sector.
Economic Growth
at the heart of successful
development
CREATING AN ENABLING
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
The following are focus areas of DEDAT that
contribute towards an enabling business
environment:
It is the fundamental belief of the Western
Cape Department of Economic Development
and Tourism (DEDAT), that growth is driven
primarily by the private sector operating in a
market environment. Therefore, the state’s role
should be to create and maintain an enabling
business environment, and provide a demandled
private sector which supports propulsive
sectors, industries and businesses.
An example of this approach is Project Khulisa,
which enables greater intervention into targeted
sectors. This consistent strategic approach
has led to numerous positives in the Province,
including the lowest unemployment rate in
South Africa, a better growth rate than the rest
of South Africa, and a business confidence rate
which is higher than the national average.
Ease of Doing Business
Thanks to the Ease of Doing Business strategy
an estimated R493 million has been saved
through red tape reduction and ease of doing
business interventions.
Investment Promotion
The department’s trade and investment agency,
Wesgro, has attracted R7.2 billion worth of
investment to the Western Cape, since 2014.
Further to this, 64 trade deals have also been
secured, valued at approximately R11.1 billion,
since 2014.
Project Khulisa Interventions
The Project Khulisa strategy prioritises three
key sectors for the Western Cape which could
change the trajectory of economic growth and
job creation: Agri-Processing, Tourism, and Oil
and Gas Supply.

In terms of Agri-Processing, key projects were
prioritised, namely Halal export promotion,
the Halal Industrial Park, the Halal Certification
Project and Wine and Brandy export promotion.
Successful missions were undertaken by
Western Cape companies to promote Halal
products in targeted countries. Furthermore,
a collaboration between the Western Cape
Government, Wines of South Africa and Wesgro
to promote wine exports in Angola and China,
has led to significant growth of wine turnover in
both markets.
The Oil and Gas Supply sectors can potentially
provide huge gains for the province. 34
potential investors have already signed
Memorandums of Understanding with regards
to the industrialisation of the West Coast
Region, including the Saldanha Bay Industrial
Development Zone.
Over the last year, Tourism’s Gross Value Add
grew by more than R2 billion, or 11%, which
is more than five times that of the national
average. And since the inception of an Air
Access team, inbound international seats have
grown by 800 000 seats, by expanding and
adding routes into Cape Town.
Innovation
Innovation is key to ensuring significant growth
in the economy. Leading the fight in innovation,
the department has seen the first intergovernmental
innovation forum established,
with ten provincial government departments
accepting the challenge to work smarter.
Further to this, 15 Western Cape Government
case studies have been developed and
distributed for peer learnings.
Digital Economy
The Public Access Wi-Fi project established
178 hotspots, accumulating 1.6 million users
and exposing 400 000 citizens to digital
literacy programmes. DEDAT developed a
strategic framework for the Digital Economy
to be responsive in a fast-changing digitallyenabled
world. The Digital Business Toolkit
was developed as an online platform to enable
SMMEs to access services, tools and skills that
will aid in their growth and competitiveness.
Green Economy
With DEDAT support, GreenCape’s investor
support across the green economy has helped
attract over R1.2 billion worth of investment in
green technology and services in the Western
Cape. Extensive work has been undertaken to
advance the progress of establishing an Atlantis
Special Economic Zone (SEZ), which will serve
as a green tech hub.
To strengthen long-term water resilience for the
province’s economy, DEDAT leads an Economic
Water Security Workstream with various roleplayers.
The Green Economy unit also builds
stakeholder relations with the aim of improving
waste economy development in the Western
Cape.
Energy
The Energy Security Game Changer aims to
increase the uptake of solar PV in the Western
Cape, with 60MWp of solar PV installed to
date. Small Scale Embedded Generation
(SSEG) is promoted, with 13 municipalities
now having NERSA approved tariffs and 21
municipalities having a framework in place
to allow SSEG. Furthermore, the Energy
Security Game Changer actively drives the
promotion of Liquefied Natural Gas, which was
bolstered through securing USTDA support
(US$800 000) to undertake a further feasibility
study into the importation of LNG.
Skills Development
The Apprenticeship Game Changer addresses
the supply and demand for skills needed in
the Western Cape economy. It focuses on
sectors with the potential for a higher uptake
in employment and economic growth, within
specific occupations and trades in these sectors.
The programmes initiated by the department
and other role-players aim to improve the
employability of particularly first-time work
seekers, through programmes that provide for
extended training opportunities, experiential
learning and work placement at companies.
For more information on the Western Cape
Department of Economic Development and
Tourism, please visit: https://www.westerncape.
gov.za/dept/edat

BE PART OF A
DYNAMIC ECONOMY
CAPE TOWN IS A
HIGH-PERFORMANCE,
AFRICAN BUSINESS HUB
THAT SUPPORTS BIG
IDEAS AND INNOVATION
The city is best known as a world-class tourism destination, but
increasingly more businesses identify Cape Town as a forwardlooking
globally competitive city ready for investment.
In fact, the city is already the African headquarters of major
multinationals such as Amazon, KimberlyClark and DHL, while
home-grown global titans, Naspers and Shoprite, use Cape
Town as their base.
What sets the city apart is not just Cape Town’s exceptional
quality of life but also government’s commitment to create an
enabling environment.
Invest Cape Town is the City’s commitment to creating a
platform that enables business leaders and entrepreneurs to
live, work, play and invest.
We work with international and local entrepreneurs, SMEs and
multinationals that wish to set up a business in Cape Town.
On the ground we collaborate with partners from business
formations, investment promotion agencies and sector support
entities, and all spheres of government.
“Cape Town is an excellent location from which businesses can
launch their operations into the rest of Africa and we are ready
to help you build your business case for investment,” says the
City’s Director for Enterprise & Investment Lance Greyling.
WHAT INVEST CAPE TOWN OFFERS:
• Assisting investment facilitation;
• Unlocking investor incentives;
• Investing to grow catalytic sectors;
• Helping enterprise development;
• And cutting red tape.
In September 2018 the World Bank Ease of Doing Business
Report found Cape Town to be the best of all South African
cities in getting electricity to investors and granting
construction permits.
INFRASTRUCTURE
The City is investing R6bn in infrastructure each financial year,
and establishing energy security by switching to renewable
energy.
Cape Town is also investing in IT infrastructure and to date the
City has installed 848km of fibre-optic cable.
GROWING SECTORS
“A lot of the sectors that Cape Town is doing well in are sectors
that are poised for big global growth – sectors of the future,”
says Greyling.
Cape Town’s entrepreneurial tech sector is significantly more
productive than other African cities, employing more than

double the people than Lagos and Nairobi combined, says
Endeavor Insight 2018 study.
In Business Process Outsourcing, we’re the leader in South
Africa and in Africa with a rich talent pool.
The City is funding special purpose vehicles to act as catalysts in
key growth sectors. In the past financial year 2703 Capetonians
received training in the BPO, ICT, fashion, garment making and
renewable energy sectors, creating a steady pipeline of skilled
labour.
Cape Town’s flourishing renewable energy market has seen the
highest year-on-year growth globally, says Moody’s Investors
Service 2017 report.
The Atlantis GreenTech Special Economic Zone (SEZ) presents
a particular opportunity, attracting investments in clean
technologies, electronics, solar and wind energy technologies,
energy efficient technologies, alternative waste management,
alternative building materials, and technologies, among others.
It’s also easier to reach Cape Town. Since 2015 Cape Town Air
Access has secured 13 new routes and has helped expand 18
existing routes to the rest of Africa, Asia and Europe.
Cape Town offers many investment opportunities and Invest
Cape Town offers a wide range of customized services, free of
charge, for any business stage you are in.
Twitter: @investcapetown
Visit www.investcapetown.com

INTERVIEW
Showcasing investment
opportunities
Wesgro CEO Tim Harris outlines how dedicated programmes
are attracting significant investments and tourists.
Tim Harris, CEO
BIOGRAPHY
Tim Harris is the CEO of
Wesgro, the Tourism, Trade and
Investment Promotion Agency
for Cape Town and the Western
Cape. Tim previously served
as Member of Parliament and
Shadow Minister of Finance
for the Democratic Alliance
(DA). He holds a BA in English
Literature and a Masters in
Economics from the University
of Cape Town. Tim currently sits
on the board of the Cape Town
Film Studios and BPESA.
The Western Cape metropole emerged from a long-term
drought as a more resilient city. What has been the impact
on tourism and investment?
There are many factors that affect tourism and investment. From a tourism
perspective factors include affordability, distance to destination, climate,
exchange rate, visa regulations and even the price of petrol will have a
big impact on the domestic market. Similarly, investment was negatively
impacted through credit downgrades, policy uncertainty, political
instability and negative media coverage surrounding the drought that
weighed down on our investment case globally.
The effect of the drought on tourism will not be seen at this point;
however, our top 10 markets (UK, Germany, USA, Namibia, France,
Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia and the UAE) performed
relatively well in Q1 of this financial year despite the circumstances.
We did indeed look to other markets for lessons learnt, inspiration
and advice on how to deal with a crisis. Tourism is a resilient sector, and
with time it can correct itself. We learnt from Mexico that profit margins
for businesses, especially small business, is so small that anything and
everything must be done to expedite recovery. Another lesson learnt
was that deep discounting was not a solution either. Egypt learnt that it
takes five years to mathematically recover from a 10% cut in prices – once
you start discounting your clients change and so does your competition,
which isn’t always good.
Taking inspiration from the “Great” Britain destination marketing
campaign we conducted research through an international investor
perceptions survey, to provide insight as to how Cape Town and the
rest of South Africa faired in the international investment consideration
market. Following this, a marketing campaign was devised to instil
confidence in the economy of the Cape and South Africa internationally,
by showcasing the many opportunities for investment across a variety
of sectors in the Western Cape.
The research provided us with the data we needed to make sure
the campaign was efficient and impactful. It demonstrated that we
needed to do more to show to the world our relative strengths – access
to growing markets, ease of doing business, a growing economy, and
world-class infrastructure were key points identified in this research.
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How do you feel events at national level are
panning out for the investment environment?
We welcome the steps by President Cyril Ramaphosa to
attract over US$100-billion in foreign direct investment.
We particularly welcome the steps outlined in the visa
relaxation announcement as a step in the right direction
– if implemented correctly it will have a noticeable and
positive impact on tourism, trade and investment in the
Western Cape and South Africa.
A team from the Western Cape comprised of
representatives from the Western Cape Government,
City of Cape Town, Saldanha Bay Industrial Development
Zone (IDZ), GreenCape and Wesgro recently attended
the inaugural Investor Summit in Johannesburg to play
our part in driving more investment to South Africa.
Key to Cape Town’s success is cooperation between
all spheres of government and being a reliable and
transparent partner for foreign and local investors.
Please give an overview of your investment
highlights over the past year.
Wesgro’s Investment Promotion unit realised committed
investments worth R2.29-billion, to be landed over the
next five years, which translated into 1 014 jobs. A key
success for the unit was the foreign direct investment
committed by Pegas Nonwovens, the largest producer of
spun melt nonwovens in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle
East and Africa), to the value of R1.3-billion. A key part of
our investment promotion effort is the work done by
our dedicated Agribusiness Investment Unit, funded by
the Western Cape Department of Agriculture. This team
helped land committed investments in the agribusiness
sector amounting to R756-million off the back of six
investments. This is expected to create 1 412 jobs over
the next five years. Contributing to this achievement was
the US-founded Cape Town-headquartered Marathon
Restaurant Group, which invested R300-million in
developing Pizza Hut, fast-casual restaurants in the
Western Cape, creating 700 jobs.
How are the Cape’s exporters faring?
During the past financial year, Wesgro’s International
Trade Promotion unit facilitated the signing of 53
business agreements with an estimated economic
value of R2.83-billion over the next five years, expected
to create 679 jobs. Further to this, the unit facilitated
INTERVIEW
outward foreign direct investment projects valued
at R190-million.
Is the expansion of the CTICC having an
effect on conferences and events?
The Cape Town & Western Cape Convention Bureau’s
mandate is to attract meetings, incentives conferences
and exhibitions to the Western Cape. Often, and
especially over peak periods, conference and event
venues in the Western Cape have to turn away
business due to unavailability of venues space. An
expanded convention centre means that additional
large-scale conferences and events can be hosted in
the destination. As the number one destination on
the continent for hosting international association
meetings, the bureau often works with the convention
centre sales team in promoting the destination and
attracting new meetings.
What are the highlights of the Cape Town
Air Access programme?
The Cape Town Air Access partnership between
Wesgro, the City of Cape Town, the Western Cape
Government, South African Tourism, Cape Town
Tourism, Airports Company South Africa, and
private sector partners, demonstrates the power of
collaboration in boosting the Cape economy.
In just three years, this initiative has helped land
13 new routes and 18 route expansions, adding an
additional 750 000 inbound seats to Cape Town
International Airport. These additional passengers have
spent an estimated R6-billion in the Cape economy.
During the financial year in review, the economic
impact of the project is estimated to be R2-billion.
The most recent highlight was the launch of
Cathay Pacific’s first direct flight between Cape Town
and Hong Kong. By connecting the Cape directly to
China for the first time, we hope to see a marked
increase in tourism and investment into our region.
Other highlights include our expanding direct
flight offering to key hubs in Africa. In September,
Kenya Airways launched a direct flight from Nairobi
to Cape Town, with RwandAir introducing the direct
flight from Kigali via Harare to Cape Town. These
launches are fundamental in positioning the Cape
as a gateway to Africa.
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CAPE TOWN STADIUM
FROM ICONIC ACTS TO INTIMATE DINNERS
This is where South Africa celebrated the life of Nelson Mandela,
where we cheered the superstars of the Soccer World Cup.
It’s where we got goosebumps from seeing the world’s biggest
acts live on stage and took selfies dressed up for the Rugby Sevens.
It’s also the perfect setting for a unique gala event, business event
or product launch and the ideal backdrop for an international
blockbuster or one-of-a-kind photoshoot.
SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST A STADIUM.
Excellent location | Great scale and versatility | World-class facilities and staff | Great legacy
For enquiries or to book, call +27 21 417 0120 or visit CapeTownStadiumBookings.co.za

CAPE TOWN STADIUM
THE PERFECT SPACE FOR ANY EVENT
The Mixing Zone.
From black tie parties and exclusive
soirées to premiere corporate events
and fashion shows – any special event
can be created here.
Business Lounge.
Let your imagination run wild in
this flexible venue. The space
can be easily divided and can
accommodate large tables and
many guests. It has a great view of
the pitch and is perfect for grand
functions and has enough space for
dance floors.

Network Lounges.
With amazing sea and stadium
views, these four open spaces can
host corporate meetings, cocktail
parties, team builds, exhibitions,
seminars and more.
The Presidential Suite.
This exclusive and private setting
on the fifth floor gives an incredible
view of the pitch with an intimate
atmosphere. Host a strategic
discussion, product launch or club
function that everyone remembers.
With all of these amazing spaces, plus additional conference rooms, the stadium forecourt
and the pitch itself, the Cape Town Stadium really is so much more than just a stadium.
Contact us today and let us bring your event to life.
SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST A STADIUM.
Excellent location | Great scale and versatility | World-class facilities and staff | Great legacy
For enquiries or to book, call +27 21 417 0120 or visit CapeTownStadiumBookings.co.za

Red Tape
Reduction
Unit
The Red Tape Reduction Unit makes it easier
for businesses to thrive in the Western Cape, by
growing our economy and creating more jobs.
The amount of red tape and bureaucracy faced
by businesses when dealing with government
restricts economic development and growth.
Creating an enabling environment for business
is, therefore, fundamental to creating a
competitive economy.
Research shows that red tape costs South
Africans R79 billion per year. This is equivalent
to 6,5% of GDP, or 16,5% of the total wage bill
in 2003 (Small Business Project (SBP) 2005).
Red tape is defined as:
• non-essential procedures, forms, licences,
and regulations that add to the cost of
dealing with government; or
• anything obsolete, redundant, wasteful
or confusing that diminishes the
competitiveness of the province, which
stands in the way of economic growth and
job creation or wastes taxpayers’ time and
money.
Red tape interferes with:
• the ability of businesses to compete
in a global marketplace as a result of
unnecessary costs and/or delays;
• the rate of establishment of new
businesses; and
• the sustainability and/or growth of existing
enterprises.
The Red Tape Reduction Unit was established
by DEDAT in 2011. Its main objective was to
remove bureaucratic blockages to make it
easier and more cost-effective to do business
in the Western Cape. The Unit follows a twopronged
approach in tackling bottlenecks in the
business environment:
• reactive through its response to cases
lodged to the unit; and
• proactive, which seeks to identify
legislation and processes that represent
barriers to business or efficiency in
government, and designing interventions
that cut across an entire industry sector or
several processes.
The outcome of the interventions must impact
on the cost of doing business in terms of
reducing either time, costs or complexity.
To date the unit has dealt with almost 8,000
business and red tape related matters. It
maintains a resolution rate in excess of its 85%
target.
The WCG made Regulatory Impact
Assessments (RIAs) standard practice for new
policy and legislation. Cabinet has approved it
as a mandatory requirement for all significant
legislation and policies. We are the first and
only province to elevate RIA to this level.
The Red Tape Reduction Unit has partnered
with sister departments to improve businessfacing
processes. This benefits business
process improvement (BPI) projects, such as
the Department of Transport and Public Works
(tourism signage and abnormal load permit
applications) and Agriculture (export related
processes, permit applications and auditing).
Several BPI project possibilities with national
departments are being explored as well.
The potential for making it easier, cheaper and
faster to do business in the province is huge,
considering the many approvals, licences and
authorisations that businesses need to operate.
For more information on the Red Tape Reduction
Unit please visit https://www.westerncape.gov.
za/red-tape-reduction/

Cutting the red
tape for tourism
attraction in
Franschhoek
The Red Tape Reduction Unit’s intervention in
the Franschhoek Wine Tram’s success story not
only impacted their future of doing business
and expanding, but ensured economic growth
and job creation for the entire Franschhoek
Valley, including more than 20 wine farms.
Brett Garner, Franschhoek Wine Tram’s General
Manager, explains that the Red Tape Reduction
Unit has assisted them twice over the past
five years. “The involvement of the Red Tape
Reduction Unit is actually multifaceted in our
business. When we started the Wine Tram in
2012, it was quite a novel idea to have a tram
on a railway track. As we also have a hop-on
hop-off bus service to get our guests to and
from the tram and the various wine estates, the
Department of Transport characterised us as a
charter service. As such we were under pressure
to clear hurdles that we simply could not. For
example, as a hop-on hop-off service we could
not generate a passenger manifest or guest list,
but we were required to do so.”
This placed the Wine Tram at odds with local
officials. “To add to this we were also expected
to take our buses all the way from Franschhoek
to have them inspected in Cape Town. This
would mean closing our business for a day every
month, which did not make economic sense.
The owners contacted the Red Tape Reduction
Unit and they helped to get the Department of
Transport on the same page as us and amend
our accreditation. We were also able to have
our inspections done on site,” explains Brett.
The business quickly expanded and today the
Franschhoek Wine Tram visits 22 wine estates
and has ten road vehicles and three railway
trams.
Brett believes that if the Red Tape Reduction
Unit had not intervened, it would have had a
negative impact on job creation and tourist
numbers. “We are an international tourism
drawcard and a delay to our launch would
have created a bad public perception of us.
Our expansion has allowed us to consider
developing further stretches of our line, which
we are keen to do.” The Franschhoek Wine Tram
service has expanded from taking a maximum
of 40 people per day when the service was first
launched in 2012, to taking up to 540 people
per day after the most recent expansion. “We
now have 55 employees, with the vast majority
coming from Franschhoek,” says Brett. “The
impact of the Franschhoek Wine Tram on job
creation and local investment is magnified
when you consider that each of the wine
farms we visit has either made changes, built
infrastructure or brought in additional human
capital to ensure a better offering. Something
we should not undervalue, and where the Red
Tape Reduction Unit has greatly assisted us, is
the international drawcard the Wine Tram has
become,” explains Brett.

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The Voice of Business
In a time of change, dynamic people and making
connections with others are still fundamental to
business success.
After 214 years of service to business, two
industrial revolutions and another one on
the way, the Cape Chamber of Commerce
and Industry believes that there is one
thing that has not changed: business is still driven
by people – who are smart, dynamic entrepreneurs.
The second thing that has not changed in 214
years is the need to communicate with others in
the field, meet people to work with, learn from
each other and generate the excitement of a shared
vision. The modern term for this is “networking”,
but the Chamber offers much more than that – it is
“Where Opportunity Meets”.
The two most recent revolutions have left us
with electricity (most of the time) and information
technology that have given us access to unlimited
knowledge with just a few clicks and key strokes.
The next revolution will supercharge all this with
artificial intelligence and robots. But we will still need
to meet each other, exchange ideas and discuss the
threats and opportunities in the business world. The
Chamber provides a safe space for being heard and
finding opportunity.
The third thing that hasn’t changed since 1804 is
the need for a voice to speak on behalf of business.
Our ability to lobby with integrity is underpinned
by our status of being fiercely independent. We are
not affiliated to any political party and we are not
beholden to any single organisation. We monitor
proposed legislative changes that could affect
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business interests. Where necessary, evidence is
submitted to the appropriate parliamentary standing
committee or other authorities on behalf of our
members. This is a task that is becoming increasingly
important in an age where requirements for “public
participation” are built into legislation.
We also use media releases with radio interviews
and letters to newspapers to reach a wider audience
and alert the public to developing problems and the
likely unintended and undesired consequences of
legislation and policies. Our voice matters.
The Internet can provide most of the information
we need, but sometimes it is necessary to go beyond
Google and anticipate future problems. We do
this by arranging seminars and workshops where
information can be shared, and experts can lead
discussions to provide a deeper understanding of
issues that can affect businesses, both big and small.
Bringing people together
Bringing people together has always been a
core function of the Chamber. In the early days
this happened naturally as merchants visited the
Chamber offices in Adderley Street for the latest
shipping news and to learn what cargoes were about
to be unloaded. That created a perfect networking
opportunity, but these days we have to arrange
events by organising conferences, exhibitions, coffee
club mornings and celebrations to mark events like
International Women’s Day.
We have nearly as many events as there are
business days on the calendar.
The Cape’s economy has been built on trade and
promoting trade is still one of our main activities.
We have an international trade desk which is the
first point of contact for visiting trade missions and
delegations. We also set up information seminars
on how to conduct trade with various countries and
assist members with information on exhibitions as
well as arranging for incoming delegations to visit
the chamber and meet our members.
For those venturing abroad for new customers
we provide them with a letter of introduction, a
Carnet de Commerce, in both English and French.
We also issue certificates of origin for exporters,
host the Port Liaison Forum where problems with
sea freight are discussed – and often solved – and
we promote exports with our Exporter of the Year
competition, now in its 28th year.
Our portfolio committees provide specialist
forums for the different fields of commerce, industry
and agriculture, and we secure top speakers to give
members the latest information and to look ahead
to likely developments.
In many ways small business is the future of the
country and we go out of our way to provide advice
and HR support while our local chapters take the
Chamber to business in the outlying areas of the
city. We also have an annual small business expo
where our members can meet a wide range of
businesses who supply services to business as well
as officials from all three tiers of government who
can help small firms run more smoothly and with
less red tape.
Everything may have changed in the past 214
years, but the Chamber is still about providing
services to business, so nothing has changed.
CONTACT DETAILS
Physical address: 4th Floor, 33 Martin
Hammerschlag Way, Foreshore, Cape Town
8001
Postal address: PO Box 204, Cape Town 8000
Tel: +27 21 402 4300 | Fax: +27 21 402 4302
Email: info@capechamber.co.za
Website: capechamber.co.za
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INTERVIEW
Advancing sustainable
growth through
collaboration
Ryan Ravens, the CEO of Accelerate Cape Town, outlines the
ways in which business, academia and government can work
together to make an impact on socio-economic growth.
Ryan Ravens
BIOGRAPHY
Ryan Ravens currently holds
three degrees including an
MBA from the University of
Cape Town. He has extensive
experience in leadership
positions in the public and
private sectors. Ryan owned
and managed a successful
management consultancy
before delivering the first draft
of the masterplan for the 2010
World Cup. This led to him being
asked to join FIFA, after which he
was Group Executive (Enterprise
Programme Management
Office) for the Gauteng Growth
and Development Agency.
What is Accelerate Cape Town doing to attract and retain
black talent to the region?
Cape Town is one of South Africa’s key business hubs; however, young
black professionals have not always found the city an easy place to
network and meet mentors in their careers. To support our members’
talent programmes, Accelerate Cape Town hosts a number of initiatives
such as our Inspiration Sessions and Thought Leaders engagements,
which provide a large vibrant forum for young professionals in Cape
Town to network, as well as debate critical issues such as transformation
and career progression. Accelerate Cape Town’s Human Capital
programme aims to
• Address issues of transformation in the city
• Provide a dialogue between business and academia and address issues
impacting on graduate placement and work readiness
• Provide a cross-sector engagement for HR professionals in Cape Town
through workshops
• Provide a networking platform for newly relocated staff of our member
companies through our networking engagements.
How can business, government and academia work
together?
We are extremely fortunate in the Western Cape to have no less than
four world-class tertiary institutions and two internationally accredited
business schools. At Accelerate Cape Town, we believe that business,
government and academia should collaborate to positively contribute
to the socio-economic transformation South Africa so desperately needs.
We work to create an ecosystem in which engagement between
business, government and the Western Cape’s four universities is synergetic
and highly impactful.
What is the aim of Accelerate Cape Town’s Business
Leadership programme?
The aim of the programme is to
• Stimulate robust discussion on issues such as governance and ethics
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and also drive higher accountability on these critical
issues
• Connect business, government and higher
education to find opportunities to collaborate and
co-create, generating greater economies of scale
• Tap into the depth of expertise found in universities,
ensuring we remain innovative and relevant as a city.
How can Accelerate Cape Town’s
Enterprise and Supplier Development
(ESD) programme benefit corporates as
well as the local economy?
South Africa greatly needs jobs and economic
development, but with government coming under
increasing pressure to reduce its wage bill, and
the corporate sector similarly pushing for greater
efficiencies in a recessionary economy, the only
remaining hope for job growth is the SME sector. In
order to significantly grow SMEs, we need to provide
them with access to market opportunities, finance,
technical support and mentorship.
Identified as a key economic driver globally, the
development of SMEs is probably the most meaningful
way to grow a more diverse and sustainable
economic landscape for South Africa. Accelerate
Cape Town’s Enterprise and Supplier Development
(ESD) Programme aims to encourage greater socioeconomic
transformation.
How can SMEs be supported?
SMEs require support and resources that include
access to suitable market opportunities, access to
finance for upscaling, access to technical support
required for upscaling and, most importantly, access
to best-of-breed mentors.
Is something being done to tackle Cape
Town’s traffic problem ​holistically?
There have been numerous collaborative attempts to
improve Cape Town’s transport crisis in the short term,
including everything from carpooling and corporate
shuttles, to non-motorised transport solutions such as
bicycle lanes. These solutions have started chipping
away at the problem; however, they remain short-term
interventions and will not shift the needle over the long
term as they remain largely inaccessible or impractical
for the majority of commuters.
Cape Town will always be constrained
geographically when it comes to building new road
infrastructure as our city centre is wedged between
the mountain and ocean, and most of our major
highways converge on the Foreshore, resulting in
significant daily bottlenecks. Improvements to our
roadways in other parts of the city simply result in
motorists getting to the bottleneck sooner, thereby
extending the daily congestion further and further
down the road. Interestingly, recent research has
shown that nearly 80% of motorists arrive at the
CBD in single-occupancy vehicles. Increasing levels of
vehicle occupancy, through initiatives like carpooling
and shuttle services, will have a significant downward
impact on the number of vehicles clogging up our
roads, but with Cape Town being the fastest-growing
city in South Africa, this will provide a temporary
reprieve at best.
The solution is a clean, safe and efficient commuter
rail system. This will only be possible through
unprecedented collaboration between the public
and private sectors. We need innovative thinking,
new models of public infrastructure development,
and unwavering political will to see this done.
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PROFILE
WECBOF fosters
entrepreneurship
in the Western Cape
The Western Cape Business Opportunities Forum (WECBOF) celebrates its 24th year as one of the
Western Cape’s longest-standing business associations. During its lifespan WECBOF has supported many
entrepreneurs in moving from their start-up phase to becoming very successful organisations with many
of these still operating, and contributing meaningfully to the economy.
WECBOF has
had to adapt and
keep pace with
an ever-changing
economic, commercial,
technological,
political
and socio-economic
environment.
The organisation
today
Arifa Parkar, CEO
has as its central
focus the sustainable
growth and
development of a community of young, successful
entrepreneurs who will be able to lead
businesses which will contribute in a positive way
to growing and prospering our economy and
creating much-needed jobs in our communities.
Support to young entrepreneurs, through its 10x
Growth Programme, comes in the form of:
• Access to financial and other business
support services
• The identification of, and assistance with entry
into, lucrative markets for entrepreneurs’ products
and services.
Contact us today if you wish to sign up as a member.
Our member packages are affordable, and
are tiered from the more established corporate
business to the new start-up.
CONTACT INFO
Physical address:
3 Irene Street, Bellville 7530
Postal address:
PO Box 707, Kasselsvlei 7533
Tel: +27 21 946 2519
Email addresses
General enquiries: office@wecbof.co.za
CEO: arifa@wecbof.co.za
Website: https://wecbof.co.za/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/wecbof/
Twitter: @wecbof
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makes it happen!
The Western Cape Business
Opportunities Forum (WECBOF)
provides a platform for businesses
to establish and maintain contact with
fellow entrepreneurs; to have access to
opportunities, information and training;
and to have representation on a number
of relevant forums of government and
other associations focussed on growing
and enhancing the commercial sector,
with a specific focus on small, medium,
and micro enterprises (SMMEs).
WECBOF is widely recognised and
respected as a powerful voice for
business in the Western Cape; we are a
provincial service organisation with our
focus and attention firmly on the national
and international business pulse.
CALL US TODAY.
+27 21 946 2519
office@wecbof.co.za www.wecbof.co.za
www.facebook.com/wecbof/
@wecbof
A powerful voice for business.
Where entrepreneurs excel.

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Innovation drives exports
The Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s
Exporter of the Year competition showcases the
Western Cape’s many talents and resources.
Twenty-eight years of Exporter of the Year competitions run by
the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry and sponsored
by the Export Credit Insurance Corporation, have proven that
enterprise and innovation are the important driving forces in
the Western Cape economy.
The 2018 finalists were:
• All Women Recycling, a Muizenberg company which transforms
plastic waste into beautiful handcraft items, gifts and gadgets;
• Caffenu, which makes cleansing capsules for coffee machines;
• Cape Cookies, which manufactures and exports biscuits;
• Ele Trading markets and exports fresh produce;
• Elim Spa Products International, which produces a wide range of
heath-restoring spa and beauty products;
• Folio Online, a translation service for Africa and the world;
• Kallos Global (Pty) Ltd and
Global Fruit Masters (Pty) Ltd,
which procure and distribute
fruit and vegetables;
• Overhex Wines International,
winner of international awards;
• Research Unit, manufacturer
of stylish leather handbags;
• Slent Farms, which makes and
exports wine; and
• Tradewinds Parasols makes
patio umbrellas and shades.
A consistent performer over the
years has been the agricultural
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sector, especially the fruit and wine exporters
which produce 50% of South Africa’s agricultural
exports worth many billions of rands each year.
They continue to perform well despite the recent
drought. The sector has managed this by embracing
the latest technology to get value for every drop of
water and is able to claim that it achieves double
the production on half the water.
The investments have been huge but farmers
have developed the industry to a point where
quality is more consistent and demand from the
international markets is growing. Perhaps even more
important is that it is an industry that creates jobs
on the land, in the pack-houses and in the factories
which process the fruit. It has been a pleasure for
the Chamber to play a role in promoting this vital
industry which continues to grow.
Technical Systems, which has won Exporter of
the Year three times, makes and supplies automated
feeding systems to chicken and pig farms in more
than 50 countries. Its standards are so high that
there has been little imitation of its products, even
in China, one of its most important markets.
Another growing company that produces food
is Abagold, winner of the 2016 Exporter of the Year
award. It is the biggest abalone producer outside
China and it has a unique problem: it is almost
impossible to meet the ever-growing demand for
its products from the East. The firm was started by
a vet in Hermanus and there are now more than a
dozen other companies that have ventured into the
legal abalone business.
All Women Recycling won the Finex SA trophy, the
Cape Chamber award and the Nedbank trophy.
The industry is particularly important because
prospects are virtually unlimited, and it is creating
jobs for former workers in the small-boat fishing
industry. In the long term it is building up the
knowledge, experience and technology to
produce more marine products, something that
will be necessary as over-fishing is depleting
natural fish stocks. We all hope that the industry
will develop to the point where it puts the
poachers out of business.
Maverick Trading, another former winner, found
a way to make manhole and drain covers out of
polymers and concrete to replace the cast-iron
covers which scrap metal thieves found so attractive.
We have also had spectacular winners like Mark
Shuttleworth’s Thawte Consulting which was sold
to Verisign for R3.5-billion shortly after it was named
our 1999 Exporter of the Year.
The 2018 finalists competed in seven categories
and the big winners at our gala dinner in October were
Research Unit, manufacturer of designer handbags,
and All Women Recycling. For the first time in the
history of the competition, one firm, Research Unit,
won four categories – the ECIC/Cape Chamber award
for the overall best exporter, the Transnet Port Terminals
award for the best manufacturing exporter, the Small
Exporter category and the Innovation Award.
All Women Recycling won the Finex SA trophy
for the best non-engineering exporter, the Cape
Chamber award for Design and the Nedbank trophy
for Transformation.
Winner of the Gerald Wolman Award for
Excellence in Exporting to Africa was the translation
service, Folio Online.
Janine Myburgh, President of the Chamber, said
the competition was not based on the sheer volume
and value of exports but on excellence in exporting
and the growth of exports. This created a level playing
field for both small and large exporters. “It has been
a real pleasure for the Chamber to welcome and
honour new exporters and watch them grow. They
are a very important part of our future.”
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The Maritime Economy
Half-a-billion rand has been spent to make Saldanha ready for investment.
When the maritime sector takes off,
the graduates of the Lawhill Maritime
Centre in Simon’s Town are going to
be well placed to pick and choose
their career path.
With South Africa intensely focused on properly
exploiting the Oceans Economy, something that has
lain dormant for a long time, the fact that the Lawhill
Maritime Centre won another international award in
2018 has some significance. The most recent award
for the centre, which trains pupils from grade 10 to
grade 12, is the Seatrade Africa, Middle East and India
Education and Training Award, which was handed
over in Dubai in October 2018.
Subjects offered at the centre include nautical
sciences, maritime economics and electronic
navigation systems. The school is funded by a
variety of companies (such as Safmarine Container
Lines, Grindrod and SMIT Amandla Marine), state
organisations (Transnet National Ports Authority
and the South African Maritime Safety Authority)
and private foundations. Educational commentator
Jonathan Jansen wrote in the The Times that the
centre “reminds us what our country can still
become – without any direct state funding”.
The state is directly funding several other
projects. Operation Phakisa is an initiative of the
South African government to fast-track parts of the
National Development Plan (NDP). The focus is on
delivery and results, with strict timelines. “Phakisa”
means “hurry up” in Sotho. One of the focus areas
within Phakisa is the Oceans Economy programme.
The Oceans Economy is no longer just a concept
talked about at conferences, it is a reality that is
starting to have an impact on South Africa with
other training organisations such as the South
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The harbour at East London is South Africa’s only river port. All of the country’s major ports are run by
Transnet National Ports Authority.
African International Maritime Institute (SAIMI)
setting up in Port Elizabeth and the university in
that town creating a specialist campus devoted to
maritime affairs.
South Africa has 3 000km of coastline and the
extent of the country’s territorial waters is greater
than its land size. And yet the country does not
have a merchant marine fleet and only scrapes the
surface in terms of the percentage of repair and
maintenance of boats and oil rigs which could
potentially bring work to its ports. South Africa
currently accounts for 1% of the global market of
ship repair and refurbishment.
According to Operation Phakisa documents, the
untapped potential that passes South Africa’s coast
is immense. This includes:
• South Africa does maintenance on only 5% of the
13 000 vessels that use SA ports.
• South Africa is currently servicing four of the
80 rigs that are estimated to be in range of
Cape Town.
• Vessels carry 1.2-million tons of liquid fuel around
South Africa.
• Foreign vessels ship 300-million tons of cargo in
and out of South African ports.
The coast controlled by South Africa and adjacent
waters have possible resources of oil that could
supply the country’s needs for 40 years, and natural
gas that could supply the country’s needs for 375
years. This has the potential to lead to production of
370 000 barrels per day, but this will need significant
investment.
The Western Cape Department of Economic
Development and Tourism (DEDAT) reports that in
2016 the oil, gas and marine sector supported 8 320
jobs and contributed R1-billion the province’s gross
value add.
The marine transport committee of the South
African Oil and Gas Alliance (SAOGA) is trying to
prepare South Africa to reap the potential of the
sector. It has developed 18 initiatives across three
categories: infrastructure and operations, skills and
market growth.
In 2018 De Beers Marine announced that it had
awarded a contract to ELB Engineering Services
for the drying system for the MV Grand Banks life
extension project. The alluvial diamond concentrate
exploration vessel will undergo a major upgrade in
the Port of Cape Town.
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bridge over the MR559. Fencing and access control
points in support of the customs zone are being
constructed.
Three major projects are underway or in the
planning stage, overseen by national government,
the Southern African Oil and Gas Alliance and the
SBIDZ-LC:
Saldanha Bay
The West Coast region, including the Saldanha Bay
Industrial Development Zone (IDZ), has attracted
34 investors who have signed Memorandums of
Understanding. Considerable planning has gone
into positioning the SBIDZ as a hub for a range of
maritime repair activities and oil rig maintenance
and repair.
The National Department of Trade and Industry (dti)
and DEDAT have collectively invested R500-million in
core infrastructure at the Saldanha Bay IDZ and a lease
agreement has been signed with Transnet National
Ports Authority.
The Saldanha Bay Industrial Development Zone
has formally been in existence since 2013 and it has
ambitious plans to tap further into the burgeoning
oil rig maintenance and repair business.
The SBIDZ fits neatly into two over-arching
visions: Operation Phakisa and Project Khulisa, the
targeted growth strategy of the Western Cape
Provincial Government which includes servicing
and repairing of oil rigs as a priority.
Priority sectors at Saldanha are upstream Oil and
Gas and Marine Engineering and Services. The IDZ is
run by the SBIDZ-Licencing Company which works
together with Transnet National Ports Authority
(TNPA) on many joint projects.
These are being undertaken to create good
conditions for possible investors. Quayside
infrastructure has been upgraded, including a
waste-water treatment plant and a new road and
Offshore Supply Base
Basil Read won the contract to extend TNPA’s general
maintenance quay to create an Offshore Supply Base
(OSB). The quayside is 294m with a further 3.8ha being
available onshore for support operations. It will cater
for ships and rigs looking for oil along both coasts
of Africa, and any other rigs passing along the coast.
Berth 205
This is the name of a planned specialised Rig and
Vessel Repair Quay which will be able to cater to the
latest design in oil rigs.
Mossgas Jetty
Equipment and vessel-servicing facility:
this planned 1 000-metre long jetty will be
perpendicular to the shoreline of the Port of
Saldanha Bay. It will have a maximum width of
120m and be able to serve several ships or rigs in
need of repairs or servicing at the same time. In
addition, there will be a floating dock. TNPA has
done studies on the possible location of the jetty
and the local and international market will be
canvassed for companies to do the work.
Saldanha has not been chosen by the National
Department of Energy (DoE) to host a gas-to-power plant:
Richards Bay and Coega (Port Elizabeth) have instead been
listed as the sites for 2 000MW and 1 000MW plants, if
private investors for projects at those ports can be found.
The Provincial Government of the Western Cape has asked
the DoE to reconsider and wants Saldanha to be allocated
at least 1 000MW potential for private companies to
consider bidding to run such a power plant. If gas was used
to generate power, the next step would be for factories to
consider using gas and then the whole energy mix could
be transformed.
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Main ports, controlled
and managed by
Transnet National Ports
Authority
Facilities Key cargo/function Plans
Saldanha
Slipways, quayside
facilities (Mossgas
Jetty). Fabrication
facility (FerroMarine
Africa).
Iron ore.
Industrial Development
Zone. Oil and gas supply
base and rig repair.
Cape Town
SWL floating crane,
two graving docks,
syncrolift. Cruiseship
terminal.
General cargo.
Enhance marine engineering
capability for
oil and gas sector.
Mossel Bay
Two offshore mooring
points. Slipway.
PetroSA logistics
base.
Fishing.
Slipway upgrade.
Ngqura
Rig repair.
Containers, dry and
liquid bulk.
Expand rig repair. Serve
Coega IDZ.
Port
Elizabeth
Container terminals,
bunkering, slipway.
Vehicles, manganese,
general cargo.
Removal of manganese
to Ngqura, creation of
leisure waterfront.
East London
Dry dock and repair
quay.
Vehicles and grain.
Serves East London IDZ.
Recent upgrades have
been done.
Durban
Ship repair. One
graving dock, several
floating docks. Three
repair quays. Private
quayside facilities
(EBH and Dormac).
Cruise-ship terminal.
Vehicles and multicargo.
Improve access for
trucks, back-of-port.
New storage areas.
Richards Bay
Richards Bay Coal
Terminal. Repair
berth in small craft
harbour. Serves IDZ.
Coal.
Possible gas and
renewable energy hub.
Service offshore oil and
gas sector.
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Partnerships boost
skills training
False Bay TVET College is training artisans and nurturing entrepreneurs.
Centres of Specialisation
National Government has initiated the National
Development Plan and the Strategic Infrastructure
Plan to stimulate growth in the economy. These plans
include investing in and stimulating ocean-related
industries through Operation Phakisa. In the Western
Cape, the provincial economic plan known as Project
Khulisa focusses economic growth through three
pillars – Tourism, Agri-Processing and Oil and Gas.
The Oil and Gas sector is probably poised for the
greatest development, with major plans announced
for redeveloping ports and taking a bigger slice of
the oil rig repair industry. All these developments
will require huge numbers of riggers and mechanical
fitters for deployment to oil rigs, ports, construction,
engineering and transport crews.
The government is investing in the TVET colleges
to ensure that these skills demands will be met
and has initiated the Centres of Specialisation
Programme through the Department of Higher
Education and Training (DHET) to address the
demand for qualifications in the priority trades
needed for the implementation of government’s
growth strategy.
False Bay TVET College was selected as one of
the Centres of Specialisation and is thus the premier
training institution for riggers as well as mechanical
fitters in the Western Cape. The College is inviting
industry to join this exciting venture. With training
incentivised through industry and SETA grants,
it makes good business sense to invest now in
apprenticeships for these trades.
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Centre for Entrepreneurship/Rapid
Incubator
The Centre for Entrepreneurship/Rapid Incubator
(CFE/RI) was founded through a partnership between
the National Department of Higher Education and
Training, the National Department of Small Business
Development and the College.
The CFE/RI applies an innovative and holistic
development approach to youth entrepreneurship
development, striving to shift the mindset of
young people away from only seeking employment
to creating employment through entrepreneurship.
Learning is supported by structured individual
mentoring and the facilitation of linkages to new
resources.
Technical Support: Rapid Incubator (RI)
The CFE provides technical support to the enrolled
entrepreneurs through access to the Rapid Incubator
(RI), which consists of engineering and woodwork
workshops and an innovative Makers Space. These
workshops are equipped with machinery, tools
and the production support needed to develop
and manufacture new offerings. Each of the
workshops can accommodate 10 people working
simultaneously. While the RI provides a supportive
environment and physical space for product
development, entrepreneurs are responsible for
their own product development consumables. The
Makers Space is equipped with laser cutters, a large
CNC wood router, a vinyl cutter and 3D printing.
The RI offers entrepreneurs the opportunity
to manufacture prototypes and actual products
to sell, assisting them to improve the chances of
starting up and accelerating their enterprise into
a viable business. The College welcomes any
established company’s involvement and investment
in this credible incubation programme that will
contribute significantly to establishing a vibrant
SMME economy.
New Swartklip Campus
The Swartklip Campus is the College’s next
catalytic project, set to trigger positive transformation
in the surrounding communities of
Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha in Cape Town.
Located at the former Denel munitions testing
grounds, the site offers acres of land and
solid building structures which will be refurbished
into state-of-the-art workshops and
classroom spaces.
The Swartklip Campus will primarily focus
on artisan-related programmes and will open
its doors in 2019 for its first student intake of
students in the Rigging programme. Offering
programmes in the priority artisan trades,
the campus will accommodate an estimated
3 000 students a year once fully operational,
making a major contribution to the National
Development Plan’s goal of producing 30 000
skilled artisans per year.
Companies interested in collaborating
with the College on the Swartklip Campus
venture are encouraged to complete an
Expression of Interest form, obtainable on
the official College website.
Resources for business:
• https://www.westerncape.gov.
za/apprenticeship-for-employers/
useful-information
• https://www.westerncape.gov.za/news/
apprenticeships-important-tool-tacklingyouth-unemployment
CONTACT DETAILS
Centre of Specialisation: +27 21 787 0800 Email: jacqui.layman@falsebay.org.za
Centre of Entrepreneurship and Rapid Incubator: +27 21 201 1215
Email: info@falsebayincubate.co.za
Website: www.falsebaycollege.co.za
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Tourism and events
The Western Cape is world class in many categories.
Ten cities were nominated in 2018 for “World’s
Leading Festival and Events Destination”.
Listed together with Singapore, Dubai,
London, Montreal, Sydney and the likes of
Rio de Janeiro was Cape Town.
Cape Town also won an African award for
hosting the most international association meetings,
based on 34 000 international delegates attending
conferences in Cape Town in a calendar year. The
ranking is awarded by the International Congress
and Convention Association (ICCA).
The Cape Town and Western Cape Convention
Bureau, a Wesgro unit, promotes the province as a
venue and assists with bids, planning support and
on-site services. Events, conferences and exhibitions
help to create a year-round industry which in turn
boosts employment. The Bureau helped secure 33
bids for the region in 2017/18 which had a projected
impact of R453-million.
The R900-million expansion of the Cape Town
International Convention Centre (CTICC2) has given
the city’s biggest venue additional volume and
flexibility. The new section of the centre hosted its
first conference in September 2017, the 21st Annual
Congress of the South African Council of Shopping
Centres (SACSC) at the same time as the CTICC was
hosting another major conference.
The Cape Town Stadium, built to host matches
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in the 2010 soccer World Cup, has become a multipurpose
venue at the centre of the Green Point Park,
a popular venue for families but also a site for film
and advertising shoots.
Discovery Sport awarded the HSCB World Rugby
Sevens Series event in Cape Town the “best live
event” in 2016. It has become routine for tickets for
this fun event to be sold out within minutes and the
pictures of happy fans in a packed stadium paint a
good picture of South Africa and Cape Town for
global television viewers.
Some Cape Town venues
Cape Town Stadium: Several meeting and conference
venues within the stadium are supplemented by the
Stadium itself (with seating for 55 000), the adjacent
Green Point Athletics Stadium and the Stadium
Forecourt, which hosts the Bike Expo held before
the Cape Town Cycle Tour. The stadium and the Green
Point Park are popular venues with film producers and
advertising film crews.
Cape Town International Convention Centre
(CTICC): The largest convention centre in Cape Town
is a large part of the reason for the city’s prominence
in the conference and events sector. Offering tremendous
flexibility and range for conference and
exhibition organisers, the CTICC includes in its
portfolio 11 200m² of column-free space for expos
and an auditorium with an orchestra pit that can
seat 1 500 guests. The recent expansion (CTICC 2),
has added 10 000m² of conference and exhibition
space and a further 3 000m² of formal and informal
meeting space.
PPC Newlands: One of the world’s great cricket
stadiums is available for hire. Four venues of varying
sizes include a recently renovated President’s Suite
which could host anything from a formal dinner to
a product launch.
GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World:
Venues range from intimate meeting rooms to the
Grand Arena and other spaces that can host up to
7 000 people for large events.
Century City Conference Centre: The largest of 20
venues can accommodate 1 900 people and outside
events can be held in the Century City Square.
The province has a range of excellent facilities
for conferences outside the metropole. George
has the five-star facilities of the Fancourt Hotel and
Country Club (with banqueting capacity up to 250)
and the Protea Hotel King George. Destiny Africa
Investments Holdings has targeted George as the
next centre for meetings, incentives, conferences
and expos. The historic town of Stellenbosch
and the nearby wine and golf estates have good
conference facilities.
Success story
Tourism has been a remarkable economic success
story in the Western Cape. Premier Helen Zille’s
2018 State of the Province Address included the fact
that the sector had grown 11% in the previous 12
months, adding R2-billion to the Gross Value Add
of the province.
Cape Town Air Access is a partnership between
Wesgro, the City of Cape Town, the Western Cape
Government, Airports Company South Africa, Cape
Economic impact of annual events in Cape Town
Event
Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon
Volvo Ocean Race
Cape Town Cycle Tour*
HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series
Cape Town International Jazz Festival
Impact
R224-million
R500-million
R500-million
R700-million
R700-million
* It is estimated that the three other big cycling events hosted by the Western Cape (the Absa Cape Epic,
the Cape Rouleur and the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup) collectively contribute a further R500-million.
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Town Tourism and South African Tourism, and is the
focal point for international air route development in
the Western Cape. Zille paid tribute to the Air Access
programme in her speech and noted that the new
routes added in 2018 alone would create additional
direct tourism spending of R620-million.
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC)
forecasts growth above 6% per annum for Cape
Town tourism over the next 10 years. It predicts that
the city’s tourism industry will increase the number
of tourism-related jobs from around 160 000 in 2016
to more than 230 000 by 2026.
One of the reasons that tourists visit the Western
Cape is the quality of its beaches. The province has
29 Blue Flag-accredited beaches, an international
quality standard that covers 33 different measures.
Ten beaches in greater Cape Town together with the
likes of Santos (Mossel Bay), Grotto (Hermanus), Witsand
(Hessequa) and Wilderness (Garden Route) have made
the grade. A further five marinas have qualified for
the programme, the local version of which is run by
the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa.
Several strategies are being adopted to
further improve the province’s tourist offering
and increase numbers. These include a service
excellence programme where a town’s residents are
encouraged to act as tourism ambassadors. A pilot
project was successfully launched in Clanwilliam,
where everyone in the town, including shop clerks
and petrol station attendants, joined in.
New cycling routes have been launched as part of
the Cross Cape Cycle Route which links Plettenberg
Bay with Stellenbosch via a number of charming
small towns. Further routes are planned to take the
benefits of tourism to rural areas. Many towns and
districts host annual festivals, such as the Prince
Albert Olive Festival. The Leisure Marketing team at
Wesgro supported 47 events in small towns in 2018.
Work is being done on improving the system of
visa approvals and on linking various sites associated
with the late President Nelson Mandela. Halaal
tourism also holds tremendous potential.
The opening of the R500-million Zeitz Museum of
Contemporary Art in the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
in Cape Town made a big impact in 2017. With a
footfall of 24-million visitors going through the
Waterfront every year, the Zeitz is well located to
attract good crowds. It is expected to attract global
art lovers as well. The conversion of the old grain silos
which created 6 000m² of gallery space was paid
for by the owners of the Waterfront, Growthpoint
Properties and the Public Investment Corporation.
The Waterfront has two new hotels, Radisson Red
and the Silo Hotel attached to the Zeitz Museum. A
significant move in the South African hotel sector is the
decision by Marriott International to develop Marriott
branded hotels in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
The Port of Cape Town has launched its dedicated
cruise-ship terminal, and the area between
the terminal and the Cape Town International
Convention Centre is being developed. The precinct,
called the Yacht Club, includes a hotel, residential
and commercial complex owned by the Amdec
Group, and is linked to the Waterfront by canal.
Another major development in the works will
include two Marriott hotels. In the Cape Town CBD
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there are going to be 500 new rooms, courtesy of two Tsogo
Sun hotels, plus a smaller hotel in the De Waterkant (Capital
Mirage). Tsogo Sun already operates several hotels in greater
Cape Town, including three full-service hotels in the city
centre, the Cullinan, Southern Sun Waterfront and Southern
Sun Cape Sun. The other seven hotels cover five brands in
the Tsogo Sun stable.
Elsewhere in the Western Cape, Tsogo Sun has hotels in
Caledon, Beaufort West, Mossel Bay and Plettenberg Bay.
Protea Hotels, now part of the Marriott Group, has 10
hotels in Cape Town and a further one each in Franschhoek
and Stellenbosch. There are two hotels in George.
Three of the brands of City Lodge Hotel Group are
represented by seven hotels in the Western Cape, with
all but one of the hotels (the George Town Lodge) being
located in Cape Town.
Hilton Hotels and Resorts has three Western Cape
properties, two hotels in Cape Town and the Conrad Pezula
Resort & Spa on the eastern head of the Knysna Heads.
The newest global trend in tourism, Airbnb, has come
to South Africa. Cape Town is the first African city to sign a
collaboration agreement with Airbnb. A total of 394 000 visitors
stayed in Airbnb accommodation in South Africa in 2016.
Roughly 50% of the bed nights were taken up by foreigners.
Another trend that is being explored is Halaal tourism,
a global market that is expected to reach $300-billion by
2026. The Western Cape has upwards of 200 mosques and
a cosmopolitan lifestyle that has seen various faiths co-exist
for many years.
Airports
Cape Town International Airport (CTIA) was Africa’s Leading
Airport for the second year in a row in 2018. The award was
presented by World Travel Awards Africa & India and earned
CTIA a nomination for World’s Leading Airport.
Through partnerships such as Western Cape Air Access
the airport has gained 13 new routes and 18 route expansions
since 2015. CTIA has shown sustained growth in passenger
numbers with a 5.3% increase year-on-year in 2017. Growth
in international passengers has been in double digits for the
past few years. The airport exceeded an annual arrivals figure
of 10-million for the first time in December 2016, which was
improved on in 2017.
A new, 3 500-metre runway will soon be built at CTIA,
further increasing arrival numbers. The project involves the
The 2017 Domestic Tourism Survey
(StatsSA) gave these statistics
related to the Western Cape:
• More than 1.1-million overnight
leisure trips
• 166 000 overnight business trips
• 4.1-million paid bed nights
• 241 000 tourists stayed in hotels
• 161 000 stayed in guesthouses/
guest farms
• 157 000 tourists stayed in B&Bs
• 336 000 tourists stayed in selfcatering
establishments.
realignment of the airport’s primary runway,
as well as the construction of parallel
and rapid exit taxiways. Approval for the
project was granted in 2018 by the National
Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA).
George Airport was awarded Best
Airport by Region in the African category
of the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards
in 2018. This was for airports serving fewer
than two-million passengers per year. In
2016 the airport became Africa’s first solarpowered
airport.
George Airport receives about 720 000
passengers annually. Airlink, SA Express and
kulula fly are the airlines that fly into George.
It serves as a tourism hub for the Southern
Cape region, including destinations such
as Knysna, Oudtshoorn and Plettenberg
Bay. CemAir offers scheduled flights to
Plettenberg Bay.
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Kurt Maritz, Managing
Director
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INTERVIEW
BIOGRAPHY
Kurt Maritz holds a National
Diploma in Accountancy and
Computer Practice, but is
more accustomed to developing
businesses, as his track
record proves. His first job was
with First National Bank. While
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working in sales, Kurt met an
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electrical
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whom he
went to work. His contracting
loma section in Accountancy grew, and he decided and to
mputer go on his Practise, own and started but Maritz
Electrical in 2000. Through
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re accustomed his leadership skills to and developbusinessesary
outlook, as he now his employs track in re-
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excess of 150 staff. The company
has His benefited first small job busi-
was
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lifestyle improvements to staff,
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nt to WESTERN work. CAPE His BUSINESS contracting 2019
ction grew, and he decided to
on his own and started Maritz
World first for
Maritz Electrical
Lighting the way to
new possibilities
St George’s Park lighting quality is unique.
What sort of work did you do in the beginnin
Maritz Electrical is revolutionising stadium experiences.
When we started, we were two companies helping ea
Rosslind and I had a loose partnership. I did the mark
execution. We did some basic electrical contracting.
work we did on contract, we still have that relationshi
later. It was for Technical Services of the City of Cape T
electrical side of water and sanitation.
A massive contract to install world-class lighting at the St George’s
Park cricket ground in Port Elizabeth has given Cape Town-based
lighting company Maritz Electrical a head-start as a national leader
in LED and theatrics lighting for sports stadiums.
As company founder and Managing Director Kurt Maritz says,
“That’s the sort of project that comes around once in a lifetime.”
The project was a global first because it made St George’s the
So you found a niche?
first stadium to have LED lights fitted with theatrics that was also
compliant with International Cricket Council standards.
The R27-million project was completed on time and on budget,
despite installing lights on top of the Duckpond Pavilion at night.
The response has been enthusiastic. For Kurt, the television
experts provided the really important feedback. “We cared about
SuperSport the most and they have been raving. If there are light
and dark spots on the field the cameraman must remember to
change the aperture. They said that the lighting was excellent.”
Maritz Electrical wants to be the “go-to” company with respect
to stadium And beyond lighting installations. the work Contracts for in the Bloemfontein city? and
closer to home suggest this is already happening. “I am pleased
to announce we are going to be doing something similar in our
backyard, at Coetzenburg, but not including theatrics. Stellenbosch
University has signed with us as part of a massive project.”
We actively started looking for things that other elec
either can’t do, don’t want to do or find really hard
for the city was very difficult, but we had those skills
work, which very few people specialised in. Certainl
black companies doing that sort of work.
We got more and more work and in 2004 we regist
continued operating two businesses and that ran o
years ago, when we very amicably parted ways.
Western Cape projects
How did the stadium work come about?
Maritz Electrical is active in large areas such as Cape Town’s Grand
Parade, airport runway lighting and city council facilities. The company
operates in the commercial, industrial and public sectors and offers
a wide range of services.
A new area for Maritz Electrical is reticulation and electrification:
low-cost housing projects, street lights, road-side furniture and
mini-substations. Says Kurt, “It is a big market and we can’t ignore
it. Our new sales manager comes from this background and we are
building skills in this area. We are involved in two major projects
in the Western Cape, at Overstrand and Stellenbosch.”
With an expanding workload, Maritz Electrical made a move in
We asked, “What else is nobody else doing?” The answ
and sports field lighting and maintenance. I had the p
ing on the old Green Point Stadium. Sports field ligh
most dynamic part of the business.
So the 2010 Soccer World Cup was good for
Interestingly, Maritz did not do one of the FIFA stad
still one of our busiest periods ever because FIFA c
Fund to 50build hundreds of community sports fields, a
we got involved.

INTERVIEW
2018 to new premises in Athlone. “We have moved 150 staff from
three branches into one customised 3 000-square-metre facility.
It is designed in such a way that we have enough space for 50%
expansion. Half of the massive space we dry-walled so that we
have a suite of offices.”
There are no specific targets, but Kurt is clearly looking
forward with anticipation: “We don’t have any ceiling we want
to hit. Our engine is our sales department. As much work as
they bring in, that’s how we will grow.”
The staff of Maritz Electrical includes three Master Electricians
and 75% of the staff complement is technical.
Learning process
For Kurt, the learning process has been exciting. “We are learning
applications from our clients,” he says. “At St George’s for that
exciting time when you are waiting for an umpire’s decision, we
did a heartbeat with sound and the lights that go with it. We also put
a ‘6’ in the lights. The umpires asked if we could keep the light level
on the pitch the same and do the theatrics at the same time. The
possibilities are endless. In athletics, for the 100 metres, you could
kill all the lights and follow the guys down the straight.”
Maritz Electrical is the approved installer of Musco Lighting.
A visit to Musco headquarters in the US made Kurt aware of
how the lighting system at a stadium can create new revenue
sources for clients. As Kurt comments, “If you have a light show
before the game, you have better crowd control and there is an
opportunity for vendors to sell
memorabilia or food. The same
when you leave, it creates a new
revenue stream. We are learning
as we move along.”
Stadium lighting falls
within the broader category
of large-area lighting. The
global move to LED lighting
has been a positive thing for
Maritz Electrical. In South Africa,
however, Kurt notes that there is
difference between the indoor
and outdoor scenarios. For
indoors, “everybody is going
that route” but that return on
investment (ROI) is somewhat
different in the outdoor setting.
“With street lighting and
security lights (which burn for
a long time) the ROI is good. For
large areas like sewerage works
or plants the ROI is something
like three to five years and the
power saving is there. That is not
the case with sport stadiums, so
the equation is different.”
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FOCUS
CTICC on an international
bid winning streak
The CTICC has been awarded 15 international
conferences, in the last six months alone.
Many of these will be hosted on the African
continent for the first time.
“We are extremely proud to have won these bids
which are testament to the CTICC’s competitiveness
as a venue and Cape Town’s attractiveness as a
business event destination. These wins do not happen
without the concerted effort of the CTICC team and
the dedicated collaboration between internal and
external stakeholders, including the Western Cape
Convention Bureau and City of Cape Town,” says Julie-
May Ellingson, Chief Executive Officer of the CTICC.
Here is a list of international bids awarded to the
CTICC which is still to take place:
• The Association of International Schools in Africa
Conference 2019 (AISA) will be held in November
2019 and attended by 300 delegates.
• ​The International Council on Systems Engineering
2020 (INCOSE) will be held in Africa for the first
time in July 2020, hosting about 800 delegates.
• The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)
2022 will bring 2 000 specialists to the CTICC.
• ​The World Congress of the International Health
Economics Association (IHEA) will be held in
Africa for the first time in July 2021, and will bring
together 800 health professionals.
• ​The Congress of the International Association of
Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD) is another event taking
place in Africa for the first time. 1 000 delegates
will attend in June 2023.
• ​The HIV Research for Prevention Conference
(HIVR4P) for 1 400 delegates is scheduled for
October 2020 and is the only global scientific
conference focused exclusively on the field of
biomedical HIV prevention research.
• The 3rd Ministerial Conference of the Partnership for
Action on Green Economy (PAGE) will come to Cape
Town in January 2019, and will bring together 550
delegates from the United Nations’ five agencies
to assist countries in achieving and monitoring the
emerging Sustainable Development Goals.
• ​In another first for Africa, the CTICC was awarded
the bid to host the World Federation of Paediatric
Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS)
where 1 500 delegates will share their expertise to
improve the outcomes of children suffering from
life-threatening illness and injury.
• ​The World Self Medication Industry 2020 (WSMI)
will be held for the first time on the African
continent in 2020 and will bring 400 delegates.
• ​In August 2024, the CTICC will host the General
Assembly of the International Astronomical
Union (IAU). The event, another first to be hosted
in Africa, will bring together 2 500 delegates who
are experts in the field of astronomy.
• In 2024, the World Congress of the International
Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association (IHPBA) will
be hosted at the CTICC in September and will see
2 400 delegates attending.
• In 2020, the CTICC will host the Asian Racing
Conference (ARC) 2020. The event will look at,
among other things, promoting and facilitating
the internationalisation of racing and will bring
an estimated 600 people to the CTICC.
• ​The General Assembly of the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) will take
place in September 2019, with 800 delegates
attending. ISO is an independent, nongovernmental
organisation with a membership
of 162 national standards bodies.
Having been awarded these prestigious international
events, the CTICC has already hosted two of the 15
events that will take place at the centre. The 800-delegate
International Congress of Linguistics 2018 and the
500-delegate ICAO Global Aviation Gender Summit.
The CTICC’s world-class, high-tech facilities,
flexible venues and high levels of service delivery are
making a growing impact on international conference
organisers. Cape Town and the location within the
city are strong drawcards too.
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Powering the province
The Western Cape is moving away from fossil fuels.
The City of Cape Town has set a target
of generating 20% of its electricity from
renewable energy and it is going to court
to try to make sure that this happens.
The first medium-term budget policy statement
of new Finance Minister Tito Mboweni in October
2018 was mostly designed to calm the markets after
a tumultuous time in the political sphere.
As a well-respected former Reserve Bank governor,
Mboweni was almost universally welcomed as a
steady hand on the country’s finances. What he
said about electricity was significant. Mboweni said,
“Restructuring of the electricity sector is underway.
This must include a long-term plan to restructure
Eskom and deal with its debt obligations.” Mboweni’s
predecessor, Nhlanhla Nene, had previously said that
the restructuring of Eskom was “top of the agenda”.
Eskom runs electricity generation, transmission
and distribution and it is a monopoly. Mboweni’s
statement opens up the possibility that a longstalled
plan to divide up these functions could
eventually take place. In 2013 a parliamentary
bill called the Independent System and Market
Operator (ISMO) was passed but allowed to lapse
in the same year.
Unreliable and expensive power is a massive
constraint on business, and provincial and city
governments in the Western Cape are champing
at the bit to be allowed more freedom to participate
in the sector.
When South Africa ran out of power in 2008,
a programme to get private investors to build
renewable energy capacity was introduced, the
Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer
Procurement Programme (REIPPPP). Between
November 2011 and July 2016, South Africa received
commitments of investments to the value of nearly
R200-billion through this programme.
It had by May 2016 delivered the promise
of 6 377 megawatts (MW) with an investment
value of R250-billion and many of the projects
are already delivering electricity to South Africa’s
grid. Figures released by the South African Wind
Energy Association (SAWEA) showed shareholding
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for local communities reached an estimated net
income of R29.2-billion over the lifespan of the
projects.
But at that point, Eskom said that it would not
buy power from independent producers. Only
when President Zuma was replaced by President
Ramaphosa did the programme get back on track.
In April 2018, newly appointed Energy Minister
Jeff Rabebe restarted the REIPPPP when he
signed off on projects totalling R56-billion that
will add 2 300MW to the national grid. Most of
South Africa’s electricity comes from coal and
Eskom is building two huge coal-fired power
stations.
Shortly thereafter, a new Integrated Resources Plan
was released. This was a major event because the first
Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) was printed in 2010 and
was supposed to be updated regularly to guide the
nation’s approach to electricity. Instead, the release of
updated IRPs was delayed to the detriment of proper
planning. In that uncertain environment, there was a
strong push for expensive nuclear options.
The release of IRP 2018 brings certainty to the
market. Nuclear will not be considered again until
at least 2030. The South Africa Photovoltaic Industry
Association (SAPVIA) welcomed what it calls the
“rational” draft plan.
Provincial and city plans
The potential of renewable energy is being
realised and there is a strong lobby to build
a gas-to-energy plant in the province.
In September 2018 the City of Cape
Town launched a resilience assessment,
the first step in a larger process. The
Rockefeller Foundation chose the city in
2016 as one of 100 around the world in
which programmes would be tested to
improve the ability of the city to withstand
shocks such as severe droughts. The city
wants to expand the lessons it learnt in the
period of water shortage into other areas
such as energy generation and energy
efficiency. Former MP Gareth Morgan is
Cape Town’s Director of Resilience.
The Western Cape Provincial Government is
also investing in resilience. A market intelligence
report covering energy, renewable energy, water
and waste was created by GreenCape to map the
assets and challenges in these areas.
In addition to trying to attract green investment
into the province, the province is working for
improved regulations related to small-scale
embedded generation (SSEG).
The idea of home-owners being able to sell
surplus electricity from rooftop solar systems
had been restricted to the Cape metropolitan
area until 2015. The application of the provincial
government’s Energy Security Game Changer has
expanded (via bylaws) to the whole province. There
are 19 municipalities where rooftop solar PVs are
connected to the electricity grid, 13 of which have
nationally approved tariffs in place. Users in the
13 areas can be paid for the power they supply,
provided the facility has a capacity of 1MW or less.
A total of 47MW in rooftop solar PV is currently
installed in the province.
Two further processes are underway. The City
of Cape Town would like to buy electricity from
independent producers as part of the REIPPPP
process. At the moment, the sole buyer is Eskom.
The city hopes that its court case to establish or
deny this right will be heard early in 2019.
Finally, the City of Cape Town wants to be able
to rent out its infrastructure to a power producer
who can supply
a user via that
infrastructure.
This is known
as “wheeling”.
A start was
made with the
Darling wind
farm, but more
work needs to
be done on
the legislative
framework.
Much of this
work is being
done by a
unit called the
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A shopping mall in Cedarberg will be powered by a Tesla battery.
Sustainability Energy Markets within the Energy
Directorate. Another area of focus for this group is to
investigate energy use by low-income households.
The Western Cape is lobbying hard for the
National Department of Energy to allow Saldanha
Bay to be a site for a gas-to-power plant. The site has
existing bulk power consumers like ArcelorMittal
Steel. If a gas plant is built at Saldanha, then it could
be a catalyst for the use of gas in many other sectors
such as manufacturing and residential.
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s
Energy Institute is a leader in research in the field
of electricity, and is also responsible for a regional
publication relating to domestic use, DUE.
The South African Renewable Technology Centre
(SARETEC) on the Bellville campus of CPUT offers
courses such as Wind Turbine Service Technician and
Solar Photovoltaic Service Technician and various
short courses such as Bolting Joint Technology.
The Centre for Renewable and Sustainable
Energy Studies is at the University of Stellenbosch
and the University of Cape Town has the Energy
Research Centre. The University of the Western Cape
is doing research on the possibilities of hydrogen as
an energy source.
Energy news
• Construction was due to begin in 2018 on
Perdekraal East Wind Farm in the Witzenberg
Local Municipality. Located on 3 055ha, the
facility’s 48 turbines will produce 110MW and
make it the biggest wind farm in the Western
Cape. Investors include Mainstream Renewable
Power, African Rainbow Energy and Power (AREP),
Lekela Power and HI Holdings.
• George Municipality will reduce the electricity
consumption of its streetlights by 50% by fitting
Light Emitting Diode (LED) streetlights. The twoyear
project has received grant funding from
the Department of Energy (DoE) and will be
carried out by the municipality with Clinkscales
Maughan-Brown Consulting Engineers.
• A shopping mall has been made possible in a rural
town because of innovative battery technology.
Sola Future Energy is installing a 696kWh Tesla
battery that will store energy from 2 580 solar
panels which in turn will make it possible to run
the Cedar Mill Mall in Cedarberg. The lithium-ion
battery costs as much (R8-million) as the solar
panels but developer Noble Property Fund
believes that the development would not have
been possible without the technology. Sola
Future Energy also installed a micro-grid system
on Robben Island, which previously relied heavily
on a diesel generator.
• Enel Green Power has ordered the biggest wind
turbines to be used in South Africa so far from
Vestas Turbines. The hubs of the turbines to be
placed at Soetwater and Karusa will be 82 metres
above the ground.
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Africa Biomass Company
Your caring family trading as world leaders in the wood
chipping industry.
PROFILE
Our mission
To provide a worldwide service and infrastructure that
is sustainable and above par, taking into account the
unique requirements of each client, without deviating
from our policy of innovative service and high ethical
standards.
Our values
Company
Slogan
About us
Since 2004, Africa Biomass Company has been at the
forefront of the development of biomass processing
such as wood chips, biofuels and more in Southern
Africa.
Under the mentorship of Johan du Preez, the
co-owner of Môreson Grondverskuivers, known for
service excellence in the agricultural industry since
1924, we established ourselves as market leaders of
recycling agricultural wood waste over the past 10
years.
Africa Biomass Company offers a viable, costeffective
solution for our customers to recycle this
unwanted woody biomass into usable forms.
Towards the end of 2008, the need and demand
for the chipping of orchards increased to such an
extent that the strategy of hand-fed chippers was
switched to that of horizontal grinders, fed by a
mechanical loader.
In collaboration with Môreson Grondverskuivers,
we now offer a full range of services.
Our vision
Africa Biomass Company is your caring family,
founded in faith, trading as world leaders in the
recycling industry.
• Human dignity
• Integrity
• Quality
• Pro-trademark resolution
• Innovation
• Transparency
• Individualism
CONTACT INFO
Physical address: Joubert Street, Worcester
6850
Postal address: PO Box 1322, Worcester 6849
Western Cape, South Africa
Tel: +27 23 342 1212
Fax: 086 515 5777
Website: www.abc.co.za
Willem van der Merwe, General Manager:
072 244 7737
Calie Rabie, Western Cape Production:
072 602 4543
Fanie Fourie, Eastern Cape Production:
073 402 0655
Riaan Carstens, Bandit Agency:
079 874 8624
Quintis Wiid, Parts and Workshop:
066 475 7039
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Africa Biomass Company services and
products
Contracting
• Orchard
• Windbreak recycling
• River rehabilitation
• Recycling of waste wood
• Tree (orchard) replanting (Eastern Cape)
• Mulch spreading
• Land clearing and land preparation (Môreson)
• Loggers to handle the timber rapidly and
effectively
• Well-trained teams of chainsaw operators.
Mulch and biofuel sales
Woodchip according to specification, collected in
mass trailers or in bags and transported to end user,
where it can be used as woochip mulch or biofuel.
Wood chips best practice
Woodchip mulch and biomass sales
• Bandit agency (Southern Africa)
• Dezzi equipment (Western Cape)
• Workshop and field services
• Part sales
• Manufacturing
• Training facilities
Orchard and windbreak recycling
With the use of excavators with specialised
attachments and three-wheel loggers, old orchards
can be removed from root to top and fed into a
horizontal grinder.
The horizontal grinder processes the waste wood
according to specifications discussed and agreed
upon with the landowner or project manager.
Processing of waste wood into a viable product,
that if applied correctly, could have a 30% increase in
water conservation as well as many other advantages.
Land clearing services
Africa Biomass Company is an expert at land clearing.
We have an extensive range of highly specialised
wood recycling machinery that will do the job quickly
and efficiently.
• Tree shears which cut and stack trees of up to
550mm in diameter
It is excellent practice to apply compost and mulch
in existing, as well as newly established orchards.
The best results are obtained by spreading
compost in the orchards or vineyards before covering
it with mulch. Wood chips can also be used as a base
to produce compost.
You can buy or rent these unique, patented,
designed mulch spreaders from ABC.
Massive water savings
In 2017 Africa Biomass Company was involved in many
projects such as the removal of invasive eucalyptus
trees in the Breede River and Berg River systems.
The removal and recycling of these alien trees,
old or unwanted orchards, vineyards or windbreaks
can be used as mulch which are spread in new and
old orchards and vineyards. This has led to a massive
water saving equal to the water usage of 50 000
households for one year.
Workshop and field services
With an intimate understanding of the operational
challenges of wood recycling in South Africa, we
established state-of-the-art facilities to service, repair
and rebuild wood chipping equipment of any make
and size.
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This facility is manned by a remarkable team
of experienced and suitably qualified engineers,
technicians and artisans.
An equally remarkable team of field service
technicians delivers repairs, maintenance and spares
to your site to optimise uptime and efficiency.
Parts
We have been widely commended as the company
in South Africa stocking the largest range of industryrelated
spare parts.
Optimal production and uptime require quality
components when needed. Understanding the
industry through experience sets us apart from other
suppliers.
Delivering quality components on time is essential
for running a successful operation. Our more than
2 500 line items is made up of quality components
sourced worldwide to meet requirements of our
customers and our own fleet.
Manufacturing
Our legacy of innovation has been built on more than
80 000 hours of operational experience. This enabled
us to develop and adapt machines for waste wood
recycling in South Africa which truly adds value to
the customer’s operation.
A wide range of wood chipping, grinding and
spreading equipment is manufactured locally to
specification, as required for South African conditions.
Bandit Industries, Inc
Not only has Africa Biomass Company built up a
substantial fleet of Bandit wood chippers for their own
use as part of our wood recycling services we provide,
but also offers a whole range of Bandit wood chippers
Interesting facts about ABC
• 50 000 households’ worth of water saved in 2017
• 2017 Overall winner Entrepreneur of the Year
Award
• Since 2004, servicing the biomass industry
• Approximately 2 500 line-items in total available
stock
• Only SETA-certified wood chipper training
facility.
• 20 teams all over South Africa
• Sole Bandit dealer in Africa.
to clients who want to invest in the Bandit range.
We are privileged to serve our customers as the
authorised dealer for Bandit Industries in Southern
Africa.
Bandit chippers are designed with quality,
production and longevity in mind. Hand-fed
chippers are mounted on custom-built, SABSapproved
trailers. Owning a Bandit wood chipper
will always put you in the front seat of reliable wood
chipping operations.
In many cases, the Bandit wood chipper sets the
benchmark for other brands in the wood chipping
industry. We are ready to supply the right Bandit
wood chipping solution with advice and aftercare
to your doorstep. All existing and new customers
are welcome to contact us to become the owner of
Bandit equipment.
Become an owner of a Bandit chipper
All existing and new customers are welcome to
contact us if they want to become the owner of
the top-class range of Bandit equipment. Bandit
Industries have delivered successful recycling
solutions to basically every corner of the planet.
A commitment to support
Africa Biomass Company is fully equipped and
stocked to service and repair any Bandit machine
anywhere in South Africa. We own a fully-equipped
parts warehouse (650m²), manufacturing department
as well as field services to ensure that parts are always
readily available and our own, as well as our clients’
Bandit wood chippers are not out of commission
longer than they have to be.
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PROFILE
Superfecta Trading
Electro-mechanical specialists.
Superfecta Trading is an electro-mechanical engineering
company with a national footprint and a record of successful
delivery of projects in all nine provinces. The company was
founded in 2002 and has extensive experience in mediumand
high-voltage products and related services. In 2018, after 16
years of trading as a close corporation with the Registration Number:
2002/024381/23, Superfecta Trading 209 (Pty) Ltd was founded with
its new Registration Number: 2018/231813/07.
Superfecta manufactures high-tension products under the TMA
Dynamics brand and related services. TMA Dynamics products
include transformers, mini-substations and switchgear. Superfecta
also employs a team of mechanical experts. The company prides itself
on the supply, installation and maintenance of mechanical work and
boasts over 14 years of experience in the mechanical field.
Superfecta has strategically partnered with three internationally
recognised companies: Thomas C. Wilson (New York), Schneider Electric
(South Africa) and Jinshanmen Electrical Co. (China). The partnerships
have enhanced our performance and enabled us to be the providers
of the latest technology.
Ownership Status
100% black-owned registered company, with 55% of the shares owned
by women.
Our Vision
To be the leading electro-mechanical specialist in energy solutions
across Southern Africa. Superfecta aspires to excellence, innovation
and transparency; three prominent
features that distinguish us in the
marketplace and uphold our vision.
Our Mission
To enable our clients to ensure
reliable energy supply through costeffective
and quality manufacturing,
supply, installation and maintenance
of infrastructure. Superfecta strives
to deliver the best solutions
which are achieved with strong
partnerships and joint ventures with
local and international entities that
share our values and objectives. We
have a full complement of highly
skilled engineers, technical and
administrative staff. All efforts are
geared towards compliance with
health and safety standards.
Sectors
Superfecta works in a variety of
sectors, including but not limited to:
• mining
• provincial and local government
• utilities
• transport
• oil and gas.
Professional Services
Superfecta is a one-stop shop for
all transformer and transformerrelated
work and we pride ourselves
on delivering a comprehensive and
complete service, including the
supply of transformers for:
• The mining industry
• Dry-type mining
• Distribution transformers
• Power transformers.
All our transformers are SABS and
IEC compliant and operate at
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PROFILE
higher efficiencies than any other on the market. Our turnaround
time is less than 60 days, which is a market-beater.
What gives Superfecta a
competitive edge in the industry is
investment in the latest systems and
technologies. The company invested
millions of rands in an integrated
maintenance software called Archibus.
Our maintenance system goes above
and beyond the management of the maintenance process and asset
control by recognising that these processes are just a small part of a
full life cycle. The intellectual capability of the system enables us to
ensure that our customers are well taken care of by indicating when the
following maintenance schedules should take place. We also provide
our clients with 24/7/365 support.
Transformer oils undergo electrical
stresses while the transformer is in
operation. This, combined with the
contamination caused by the chemical
interactions with windings and other
solid insulations, gradually render it
ineffective. Regular purification is
paramount. We periodically test for electrical and chemical properties
to make sure that the oil is suitable for further use and provide the
purification services needed to extend the life of your transformer oil.
This can be done online or offline.
Superfecta has played a significant role in the economic
development of South Africa, not only through employment, but
also through infrastructure development both in rural and urban
areas. We pride ourselves on having installed electricity in over 500
households in rural parts of South Africa. The company has not only
done an outstanding job but raised the bar in successfully electrifying
villages in the geographically challenging landscape of KwaZulu-Natal.
With a professional team of mechanical technologists, Superfecta
prides itself on the supply, installation and maintenance of mechanical
work. Our services include, but are not limited to:
• Supply and installation of heat exchangers tubes, boiler tubes,
steam pipes and primary air heater
CONTACT INFO
Physical address: 23 Catalunya Raceway Industrial Park,
Gosforth Park, Germiston, Johannesburg 1419
Telephone: +27 11 869 3607
Fax: +27 11 825 0086
Email: info@superfectatrading.co.za
Website: www.superfectatrading.co.za
• Supply and replacement of pipe
works (ash, sluice lines, etc)
• Replacement and new
installation of steel pipe works
• Supply and installation of
pumps
• Supply and hire of tube-testing
machine, tube cleaners, vacuum
leak dictator, tube cutters,
expanding machine
• Mechanical engineering (pipe
fitting and rigging)
• Steel pipe jacking and fitting,
supply and install concrete jacks,
jacks under roads and gas lines.
All industrial concerns require
a complex system of electrical
networks to function efficiently
and successfully. Superfecta both
installs and conducts repairs to
high-tension electrical circuits.
We also oversee electrical
reticulation (urban and rural),
electricity meters (prepaid and smart
meters) and electricity works.
Clients
Superfecta is an ISO 9001:2008
certified company that fully
embraces a Total Quality
Management philosophy in
streamlining all its business
processes. Clients include Rand
Water, FNB, MTN, Airports Company
South Africa, Total, Transnet,
Passenger Rail Agency of South
Africa and Eskom. Superfecta has
done work for the public works
departments of three provinces,
the City of Johannesburg and
several other municipalities.
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ADVERTORIAL
Nedbank’s innovation journey
takes clients into the 21st century
Dr Fayzel Omar, Nedbank Provincial General Manager of the Western Cape, is
confident his PhD in Business Administration will empower him with the knowledge
he requires to keep abreast of the latest developments in the banking industry.
Banking cluster has 90 business managers
located across the province who specialise in
commercial industries and the agricultural sector.
‘At Nedbank Business Banking we believe
you need a financial partner that not only
understands your circumstances and aspirations,
but which also provides you with relevant
solutions and a banking experience that is
hassle-free. This allows you to concentrate on
what’s most important to you – running your
business,’ says Omar.
Omar is passionate about his vision
for Western Cape business owners
and entrepreneurs who seek a unique
banking experience, and he explains
how Nedbank will support and grow
businesses and retail clients in the
Western Cape.
In view of the vast geography of the province
his teams are spread across eight regions. Each
region is led by a skilled regional manager, who
is supported by teams and product specialists
across the integrated business channels of
business banking, small-business services and
retail banking. Nedbank’s decentralised Business
Since 2012 Nedbank has launched several
first-to-market innovations, such as the awardwinning
Nedbank App Suite, the home loan
online digital channel and Market Edge, as
well as the branch of the future concept in
communities locally and nationally. 'Working
with communities is entrenched in our values
through community development, skills
development, education and job creation, as well
as environmental conservation.
'These play a vital role in building a sustainable
economy and vibrant society. We believe our
fast-growing presence in communities goes a
long way in enabling greater financial inclusion
while contributing towards economic growth,'
says Omar.

ADVERTORIAL
To take your business to the next level or to obtain more information
about Nedbank’s specialised service offering please call the Business
Banking team on +27 (0)21 412 3000 or visit www.nedbank.co.za.
And the innovation journey that ensures greater
value for clients just goes on. On 2 November
2017 the bank launched the Nedbank Money app,
which allows clients to manage accounts, make
payments and change their credit or debit card
settings from their smartphone. Nedbank Money
allows clients to make instant payments to anyone
on their smartphone’s contact list, regardless of
whether the recipient is a Nedbank client.
Nedbank has also launched a new payments
app – Karri – to simplify school payments to help
teachers, parents and children. Karri uses a builtfor-purpose
mobile payment application to make
payments to schools for events such as civvies
days easy and secure.
In November 2016 Nedbank launched an
interactive ATM – a first for Africa – giving clients
access to live teller services by video, at any time,
right from the machine. ‘This ATM also responds
to the growing trend and need for business and
individual clients to make large deposits and
withdrawals at unconventional business hours.’
These are just more ways in which Nedbank
continues to simplify banking and make it work
for the good of businesses and communities.
‘AT NEDBANK BUSINESS
BANKING WE BELIEVE YOU
NEED A FINANCIAL PARTNER
THAT NOT ONLY UNDERSTANDS
YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES AND
ASPIRATIONS, BUT WHICH ALSO
PROVIDES YOU WITH RELEVANT
SOLUTIONS AND A BANKING
EXPERIENCE THAT IS HASSLE-
FREE. THIS ALLOWS YOU TO
CONCENTRATE ON WHAT’S
MOST IMPORTANT TO YOU –
RUNNING YOUR BUSINESS.’
Nedbank Ltd Reg No 1951/000009/06
Authorised financial services and registered credit provider (NCRCP16).

ADVERTORIAL
See money differently with
Whole-view Business Banking
Gerrit Henning, Nedbank Regional Manager of Retail and Business
Banking: Northern Suburbs, explains how Nedbank works with
communities to deliver banking solutions.
Henning has five years’ experience in the
auditing and accounting profession and eight
years’ experience with international companies.
He has fulfilled various leadership roles in
Nedbank, with 14 years as regional head of
Business Banking. Henning is supported by two
area offices, with 18 skilled business managers
ready to take your business to the next level.
Nedbank continues to build on its clientcentred
strategy aimed at delivering
distinctive experiences and channels of
choice for businesses in the region.
This has seen the bank simplify and enhance
its product offering in line with its valuebanking
philosophy based on simplicity,
transparency and affordability. Innovation and
technological advancements, as well as training
and development of staff, have been key pillars
in achieving the bank’s objectives. At the core
of Nedbank’s offering in the Western Cape is
a relationship-based model, with a business
manager dedicated to your business as the key
entry point into the bank.
‘We encourage you to see money differently with
Whole-view Business Banking’ says Henning.
What does this mean for you? It is an additional
benefit of banking with Nedbank Business
Banking and means that your business and
your personal financial needs are managed in
one place. ‘Because business owners and their
businesses are very often financially dependent
on each other, our client service teams now
also offer individual banking solutions to you
and your staff, because we already know and
understand your needs,’ says Henning.
With this in mind, Nedbank has seamless
offerings for you, your employees and
your household. Nedbank provides several
communities, including individual and business
clients, with access to products and services
through its Workplace Banking offering.
To take your business to the next level please call the
Business Banking team on +27 (0)21 928 2000
or visit www.nedbank.co.za.

ADVERTORIAL
Using our money expertise to help clients
Andre Fourie, Nedbank Regional Manager of Retail and Business
Banking: Weskus and Swartland, explains how new brand values built
on the bank’s expertise can benefit Nedbank clients.
He also manages 14 retail branches across his
region, providing clients with unique financial
solutions. ‘It forms part of our purpose at
Nedbank to use our financial expertise to do
good for individuals, families, businesses and
society,’ says Fourie.
Nedbank’s goal to have all service offerings and
business and consumer products managed
under one regional structure makes it easier
to deliver on its new brand proposition to see
money differently.
Fourie’s team operates from regional
offices in Breda Street in Paarl, as well as
from representative offices in Vredendal,
Vredenburg and Malmesbury. He says
the team is ready to assist clients with
professional advice, industry-specific
solutions and a comprehensive range of
financial products and services. His team
is also supported by skilled agricultural
specialists, who provide specialised
advisory services to clients.
To take your business to the next level or to obtain
more information about Nedbank’s specialised
service offering call Andre Fourie on
+27 (0)21 928 2000, send an email to
AndreFou@nedbank.co.za or visit
www.nedbank.co.za.
Fourie has been with Nedbank for 20 years
and has worked in a number of roles, including
strategic sales, structured lending and credit.
Nedbank Ltd Reg No 1951/000009/06
Authorised financial services and registered credit provider (NCRCP16).

ADVERTORIAL
One-stop banking services from
Nedbank Cape Central
Karen Seboa, Nedbank Regional Manager of Retail and Business
Banking: Cape Central, shares how partnerships can benefit
Nedbank clients.
the needs of clients, saying that partnershipand
relationship-based banking are key drivers
of how Nedbank conducts business to ensure
clients benefit from its money expertise.
‘It forms part of our purpose at Nedbank to use
our financial expertise to do good for individuals,
families, businesses and society,’ says Seboa.
Seboa’s team operates from its
regional office at The Clock Tower in
the V&A Waterfront and is ready to
assist clients with professional advice,
industry-specific solutions – including
for the medical profession – and a
comprehensive range of financial
products and services for businesses and
individuals in the Western Cape.
‘We look forward to continuing our relationships
with our valued existing clients, and to offering
our value proposition to new clients as well.
At the core of our offering in Business Banking
is a relationship-based model, with a business
manager dedicated to your business as your key
entry point to the bank.’
To take your business to the next level or to obtain
more information about Nedbank’s specialised
service offering call +27 (0)21 412 3000, send
an email to KarenSeb@nedbank.co.za or visit
www.nedbank.co.za.
Seboa has been with Nedbank for 20 years and
has worked in a number of roles, including as
area manager for the retail branch network and
in Retail Relationship Banking. She prides herself
on building relationships and understanding

ADVERTORIAL
Relationships and understanding
client needs are key, says expert
Naziem Esack, Regional Manager of Retail and Business Banking:
Winelands, explains how new brand values built on the bank’s
expertise can benefit Nedbank clients.
He heads a team of retail and business banking
experts with the aim of providing clients with
unique business and financial solutions.
‘At Nedbank Retail and Business Banking we
believe you need a financial partner who has
a deeper understanding of your business
– someone who offers innovative, relevant
solutions and who gives you a banking
experience that is hassle-free. As money experts,
we are committed to doing good, so you can
concentrate on what’s most important to you –
running your business,’ says Esack.
Esack’s team operates from its offices
in Stellenbosch and is ready to assist
clients with professional advice,
industry-specific solutions and a
comprehensive range of financial
products and services. In addition,
his team is supported by skilled
agricultural specialists, who provide
specialised advisory services.
Esack, as a skilled banker, has been with Nedbank
for five years and has worked in a number of
roles in his 35-year career in the banking industry.
He was the area manager of Nedbank Business
Banking in Helderberg and Stellenbosch before
he started in his current role.
‘We encourage you to see money differently with
Whole-view Business Banking from Nedbank,
and to take advantage of our one-stop banking
service at Winelands region,’ says Esack.
To take your business to the next level or to obtain
more information about Nedbank’s specialised
service offering call +27 (0)21 808 6700, send an
email to NaziemE@nedbank.co.za or visit
www.nedbank.co.za.
Nedbank Ltd Reg Nedbank No 1951/000009/06. Ltd Reg No 1951/000009/06 Authorised financial
Authorised financial services services and registered and registered credit provider credit (NCRCP16). provider (NCRCP16).

Adam Rabie,
Executive Head of
Enterprise Business,
Western Region
Vodacom Business is a leading telecommunication operator progressing
rapidly in our digital transformation journey in terms of
strategies and our value propositions to enterprise customers.
Shaping a better future in the smart technology era as we embrace
the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Digitisation!! Herewith a snapshot
of some of our key and exciting offerings, positioning enterprise
customers for the smart technology era and being competitive.
Internet of Things
Creating a smarter
connected world
The Internet of Things (IoT) is big news, and it’s all around us right now. Whether it’s the
smart meter at your home driving down your utility bills, or the connected car making your
journeys more convenient, many of us already benefit from IoT in our daily lives – and we’re
only just beginning to understand its full potential.
Making it happen
The five key elements of any IoT deployment are:
• Connected devices sense their environment
• Network connectivity carries IoT data
• The management platform aggregates data and
controls devices
• Applications use IoT data in business processes
• Professional services keep everything running
smoothly
Why Vodacom?
IoT projects can be challenging. At Vodacom, we
aim to make iteasy. Here are three simple reasons
why you should partner with us:
1. Unrivalled IoT experience
Vodacom has more than 1 400 dedicated IoT experts
that you can rely on. We’ve been delivering IoT solutions
to our customers for more than 25 years and
have over 50-million IoT connections.
2. Vodafone networks you can rely on
Vodacom has mobile operations in 26 countries,
partners with mobile networks in 55 more, and fixed
broadband operations in 17 markets. As of June 2016,
Vodafone had 465-million mobile customers and
13.7-million fixed broadband customers.
Our scale doesn’t just give you the confidence that
we operate wherever you do business – it means we
can offer the exceptional levels of service you need.
3. The solutions to simplify IoT projects
We have delivered IoT applications to organisations
of all sizes and across all industries, so we know
how to make your IoT solution deliver maximum
value to you.
We partner with the world’s leading connected device
makers to offer a wide range of out-of-the-box
IoT solutions that take the complexity out of IoT
deployment.
But even when you need a customised solution,
our team of experts will ensure your business takes
advantage of best practices and methodologies
for IoT implementation to ensure you achieve
maximum ROI.
To find out more about how Vodacom can help you
make the most out of IoT, or to book a free innovation
session with one of our IoT experts, contact us at
iot@vodacom.co.za, call us on 082 1960 or visit
vodacom.co.za/iot
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Enterprise Mobility
Enterprise Mobility
FOCUS
Enterprise Mobility is a productivity tool which
allows a business to operate more efficiently.
Enterprise Mobility has five components:
Vodacom Virtual CIO
Vodacom Virtual CIO is an IT support service aimed
at the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) segment.
This is targeted at those companies that can’t afford
a full-time IT technician. The service will initially
be limited to the following geographical areas:
Greater Johannesburg metropolitan, Greater Pretoria
metropolitan, Greater Cape Town metropolitan,
Bloemfontein, Durban, East London, Kimberley,
Nelspruit, Polokwane and Port Elizabeth.
The service offers proactive and remote monitoring
services for both residential and SME customers to
prevent IT issues before they occur, and remote
telephonic assistance and on-site field support for
SME customers at no additional cost.
Mobile Order Entry
This is Vodacom’s solution to bring the benefits of
electronic commerce to very small retail outlets, many
of them informal traders such as spaza shops. This
service extends the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
transaction capability to the informal retailer, digitises
the commerce chain and drives brand awareness.
In addition, Mobile Order Entry assists in the management
of product and price information, the distribution
channel and ordering. The traders’ time
is better used.
Vodacom Field Communication
Managing a team out in the field can be challenging
due to delays in exchanging information with the
central office hub. Vodacom Field Communication
is a custom-built application that allows handson
management of data from a distance with the
receiving of immediate updated information on
smart devices.
Services include customised, daily checklists, task
management, real-time chat and messaging, route
optimisation, tracking user activity and check-in/
out via geo-tagging.
Mobile LiveTrack
LiveTrack is a GSM/GPS tracking solution that allows
businesses to track their vehicles in real time.
Econz Wireless Timecard Solutions
When companies have employees who are always
on the move or in the field, it’s difficult to track the
time they start, when they finish, whether they are
in the right place, and if the job has been completed
to the customer’s satisfaction.
Econz Wireless allows you to keep track of where
and how your employees are spending their time,
export your employees’ attendance data directly to
payroll systems for easy accounting, track progress of
various tasks assigned to your employees and monitor
your employees’ driving behaviour. It is available
for use on cellphones, smartphones and tablets.
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Connect and
Communicate
Connect and
communicate
Two of the most important
pillars of the Vodacom
Small Ready and Business Medium offering are
Enterprise Catalogue
• CONNECT: A Ready
Business is connected
Vodacom
Power to you • COMMUNICATE: A
Ready Business places
communication at the
centre
The CONNECT component
has three main elements:
• Internet for your Office
• Five kinds of connection
are offered, from
fibre and wireless, to
satellite and digital
subscriber.
• Internet on the Move
• Vodacom Business
Data gives you the freedom to be more productive
without the worry of out-of-bundle
data rates.
• Mobile Broadband Data allows you to stay
connected with data bundles for your tablet,
router or dongle.
Network Solutions
Vodacom offers four network solutions:
• IPConnect Express provides connectivity over
high-speed broadband.
• IPConnect is a managed access solution that provides
high-capacity Ethernet connectivity, over
a range of managed access mediums including
fibre, microwave and satellite.
• Vodacom’s MPLS VPN gives you worldwide coverage
and global networking power.
• Vodacom Connect’s Dedicated Internet Access
delivers you premium dedicated Internet
services over uncontended bandwidth over
fibre, microwave or satellite.
Under COMMUNICATE, Vodacom strives to assist in
the creation of a Ready Business through:
• Three kinds of business plans
• Never miss a business call
• One Net Express allows a response to every
call, whether you’re in the office or on the
move.
• Vodacom One Net Business is a cloud-based
solution seamlessly converging your mobile
and fixed telephony services across any
device.
• VoIP (Talk) provides high-quality voice calls
to any fixed and mobile network.
• Push to Talk uses a mobile app to provide
similar services as a two-way radio.
• Roaming and international offers
When travelling overseas, roam with peace of mind
with one of Vodacom’s three great-value options.
BECOME A READY BUSINESS
Visit: vodacombusiness.co.za
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ONE NET – BUSINESS PRODUCT BROCHURE
One Net Business
A Ready Business
never Vodacom’s misses One Net Business an opportunity
A Ready Business capitalises on fixed and mobile convergence across any device
Vodacom One Net Business is designed to reduce the number of missed calls and missed opportunities.
Be more collaborative in the workplace and reduce communication barriers.
Vodacom offers greater agility,
productivity and efficiency with
less complex solutions:
Vodacom One Net Business
1. Fixed and mobile convergence: Allows
the user to determine how fixed and mobile
calls will be answered and managed between
devices.
If you want to integrate mobile executive/assistant, and and fixed more networks,
Vodacom One Net Business
• Instant Messaging
is the
and
right
presence
solution.
• Video collaboration
Vodacom takes care of the platform, enabling you to
• Content sharing through a
focus on improving productivity single platform with reduced monthly
costs. Let us manage your • wider A range of IP telecommunication
Phones and apps that will
enhance the fixed and mobile converged
needs through our great range experienceof services including
mobile, security, email and Why document is One Net Business management.
better
2. One voicemail for your customers: Your
cellphone and landline number become one.
Be available using one number on all end
devices regardless of whether you’re in the
office, at home, abroad or on your cellphone.
One single voicemail inbox means you’ll never
miss calls from customers again.
3. One provider: for all fixed and mobile
requirements.
Vodacom One Net Business telephony combines solutions? fixed and
mobile telephony services
One package:
into
Convergence
one
of
cloud-based
mobile and fixed
telephony services, single support route, fully
Unified Communications
converged
solution,
user experience.
reducing the
Simplicity: Configurable for each user,
number of missed calls, making costs more predictable
easy-to-understand, intuitive, always upgraded to
the latest feature capabilities.
and keeping your Ready Business better connected.
4. Future-proofed, Unified Communications
technology in the cloud: Regular new
software releases and an easy-to-use selfservice
portal (One Net Manager) that lets
you manage your One Net Business services
directly.
5. Direct calls: to the right department or person
across any device.
6. Always ready to answer: monitor the call
availability of colleagues and direct calls as needed.
One Net Business converges (fixed and mobile). your fixed and mobile
services. You determine how, when and where and
on which device you want to answer that important
customer call or message. Communications can be
routed seamlessly from your desktop, tablet, fixed or
cellphone at a push of a button.
7. Better collaboration: With diverse
collaboration tools, your teams can work
together more efficiently than ever -
independent of location, time and end device.
Whether in video or audio conferences,
through desktop sharing, presence information
or chat – One Net Business users cooperate
simultaneously and in real time.
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services provide all the benefits of:
• Voice, through advanced unified
communications features which includes:
enterprise telephony, hunt groups, auto
attendant, conference calling, receptionist,
than traditional on premise
Cost saving: Free on net closed user group calls
A Ready Business capitalises on fixed and
mobile convergence across any device
Vodacom offers greater agility, productivity and
efficiency with less complex solutions:
1. Fixed and mobile convergence: Allows the user
to determine how fixed and mobile calls will be
answered and managed between devices.
2. One voicemail for your customers: Your cellphone
and landline number become one. Be available
using one number on all end devices regardless
of whether you’re in the office, at home, abroad
or on your cellphone. One single voicemail inbox
means you’ll never miss calls from customers again.
3. One provider: For all your fixed and mobile
requirements.
4. Future-proofed, Unified Communications
technology in the cloud: Regular new software
releases and an easy-to-use self-service portal that
Content
sharing
Video
collaboration
Presence
Through a
single platform
lets you manage your One Net Business services
directly.
5. Direct calls: To the right department or person
across any device.
6. Always ready to answer: Monitor the call availability
of colleagues and direct calls as needed.
Voice
Instant
Messaging
7. Better collaboration: With diverse collaboration
tools, your teams can work together more efficiently
than ever, independent of location, time
and end device.
Vodacom’s One Net Business services provide all the
benefits of:
• Voice, through advanced unified communications
features which includes: enterprise telephony, hunt
groups, auto attendant, conference calling, receptionist,
executive/assistant, and more
• Instant Messaging and presence
• Video collaboration
• Content sharing through a single platform
• A range of IP Phones and apps that will enhance the
fixed and mobile converged experience
For more information call 082 1960
or visit vodacombusiness.co.za/onenetbusiness
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Connect Solutions
Internet for
your Office:
Vodacom Connect Solutions
C
Vodacom’s Broadband Connect offers you
affordable, high-speed broadband Internet access
over a choice of five different access mediums:
• Fibre
• Wireless Lite
• Wireless Premium
• Satellite
• DSL
Connect Fibre
Broadband Connect Fibre is stable, durable and
capable of carrying massive data loads at extraordinary
speeds.
• Fibre is the most scalable connectivity for small
business
• No risk of cable theft ensures that network is
secure and always available
• Increased productivity, cost savings and competitive
edge
• Provides high-speed Internet access over scalable
fibre connectivity to the small business
Wireless Premium
We provide the wireless infrastructure at your premises,
install the broadband router and support the
service via a support helpdesk.
• Less downtime with no risk of cable theft
Wireless Lite
No fixed-line installation required – virtually same
day self-install connectivity.
Satellite
We use the latest technology to optimise the satellite
link and to bring you cost efficiencies, especially in
unserved and underserved areas.
• Vodacom’s satellite successes include extensive
deployment in the agricultural sector, rural clinics,
schools and police stations
DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)
Our business-grade DSL has fail-over functionality
so the infrastructure is always available.
• Low cost of entry
• Quick to deploy – provided you have an existing
landline
Four network solutions
1. IPConnect Express
With IPConnect Express, you are confidently
connected to Vodacom’s MPLS VPN (Virtual Private
Network) and Dedicated Internet Access (DIA
Express) over broadband connectivity.
2. IPConnect
Dedicated access offerings are better suited to
applications requiring quality of service, where
you need the performance of your connectivity
to be guaranteed, and bolstered by a service level
agreement (SLA).
3. MPLS VPN
MPLS VPN is a managed network infrastructure
delivered through a Multi-Protocol Label
Switching (MPLS) platform. Connecting to a VPN
enables greater network speeds through efficient
data transmission as well as reduced latency,
while the MPLS ensures that your traffic is always
prioritised.
4. Dedicated Internet Access
Vodacom Connect’s Dedicated Internet Access delivers
you premium dedicated Internet services over
uncontended bandwidth over fibre, microwave or
satellite. Dedicated Internet Access is available over
fibre, microwave and satellite
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loud and Hosting
Cloud and hosting
services
FOCUS
Become a Ready Business
As a Ready Business, information is always at your fingertips,
stored securely, without virtual and physical
threats, in the cloud. The cloud makes collaboration
easier, decisions faster and increases productivity.
Vodacom provides you with cloud and hosting solutions
and expertise attuned to your business needs.
All you have to do is focus on your core business and
be Ready for success.
Cloud and hosted services
Benefits for your organisation of using the Vodacom
cloud include reducing your capital expenditure, less
office space and hardware and energy expenses. In
addition, the cloud allows for:
• easy scalability and upgrading
• licences (only for what you use)
• usage-based pricing.
There are seven major categories of cloud and
hosting services offered by Vodacom: Security
as a Service; Vodacom Hosted Services; Software
as a Service; Platform as a Service; Desktop as a
Service; Professional Services and Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS).
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) makes your
organisation more effective: you can save on
investing in data centres, cabinet infrastructures
or actual servers. It’s a worry-free solution. The IaaS
services of Vodacom are:
Enterprise Cloud: You can run your infrastructure
without having to worry about hardware maintenance
and its costs. It is an easily scalable solution.
Virtualisation will reduce costs, with an increase in
reliability and redundancy.
Dedicated Hosting: Ideal for companies that have
outgrown a Shared Hosting solution, it is the next
step up. Dedicated Hosting increases security
compliance and performance. Vodacom Dedicated
solutions allow you to refresh your new or existing
hardware by leveraging off Vodacom’s buying
power. We also provide customers with secure space
in a cabinet.
Private Cloud: Combines the robust infrastructure
of our Dedicated Hosting offering with Vodacom’s
flexible Enterprise Cloud solution – the best of
both worlds.
You as a Vodacom Business client do not need to
hire an internal IT department or outsource your IT
to small firms; instead, you have access to 24/7/365
support when needed. Vodacom Business’ IaaS, SaaS
and even DaaS are underpinned by a strong serviceorientated
foundation.
To make the most of your business and our solutions,
call 082 1960 or visit
http://www.vodacombusiness.co.za/business/
solutions/hosting/microsoft-office-365
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KEY SECTORS
Overview of the main economic
sectors of the Western Cape
Agriculture 76
Wine and grapes 78
Fishing 84
Mining 85
Oil and gas 88
Water 91
Manufacturing 94
Construction and
property development 96
Banking and financial services 100
Development finance and
SMME support 102
Education and training 104
Business process outsourcing 112
Information and communications
technology 113

OVERVIEW
Agriculture
The capacity of the Clanwilliam Dam is set to double.
SECTOR INSIGHT
New methods are tackling
climate change.
The wall of the Clanwilliam Dam is to be raised, doubling the
capacity of the dam and bringing an additional 5 000ha of
land under irrigation.
After a lengthy delay, the decision to go ahead with raising
the wall of the Clanwilliam Dam was confirmed in October 2018. The
13-metre addition will cost R2.5-billion and could support high-value
crops for export such as citrus and table grapes. The land could also
form part of the land reform programme.
Not only is agriculture in the Western Cape central to the earning
of foreign currency through exports, but agriculture underpins many
downstream manufacturing enterprises and has enormous potential
to create jobs.
Nearly 30% of exports come from agriculture, with food and
beverages contributing a further 24%. Premier Helen Zille noted in
her 2018 State of the Province Address that the key sectors of the
province’s non-metro towns (such as retail and manufacturing) have
a strong dependence on agriculture and agri-processing.
The Western Cape Provincial Government reached its target of
100 000 new jobs in agri-processing in 2016 but the sector has since
been buffeted by bouts of avian flu and a once-in-a-generation
drought. City dwellers have learnt about the concept of “resilience”
by putting buckets in their showers and restricting personal usage
to 50 litres per person per day, but it is the agricultural sector which
has had to make the biggest adjustments to climate change.
The Provincial Government introduced a Smart Agri plan to
coordinate efforts to tackle the effects of climate change on
agriculture. Developed by two provincial departments (Agriculture
and Environmental Affairs and
Development Planning), the
African Climate and Development
Initiative of the University of Cape
Town and several private-sector
participants, Smart Agri has six
priorities:
• Conservation agriculture:
minimal soil disturbance,
crop diversity and permanent
soil cover. Wheat yields have
increased dramatically as a
result of this programme.
• Restoring degraded landscapes.
• Improved catchment area
management, including
removing alien plants.
• Energy efficiency.
• Giving priority to climateresistant
crops and livestock.
• Sharing knowledge.
The sector supports almost 10 000
farms and employs 214 000 people.
Farming carried out on the
Western Cape’s 13-million hectares
of agricultural land comprises approximately
21% of South African
commercial agriculture.
Seven of the 10 biggest export
earners are either agricultural
products or agri-processed
goods. These are citrus, wine, apples
and pears, grapes, fruit juice
and tobacco.
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Interest in the sector from foreign investors has been keen. The
Agri-business Investment Unit within investment agency Wesgro has
helped to generate investment into the agricultural sector totalling
R1.5-billion in the three years to 2017.
New areas of interest for export include the Halaal market. With a
global market valued at about $2.3-trillion, a step towards preparing
the Western Cape to compete in that market was made in 2017 with a
small-scale conference on Halaal exports. This was repeated on a larger
scale in 2018. The Western Cape, as part of its Project Khulisa strategy,
aims to double overall exports from the region by 2025.
The province’s climatic regions vary from Mediterranean around
Cape Town and on the coast (where rainfall can be 2 000mm at places)
to the drier regions of the inland Karoo districts where annual rainfall
figures can be below 150mm. Just over three-million hectares of the
province is cultivated and 270 000ha are under irrigation.
The Breede River Valley is an especially fertile area for fruit. The
Western Cape specialises in apples, plums, pears and cherries. Peaches
and nectarines can be found in most parts of the province. Raisins are
a speciality of the Vredendal area on the West Coast.
The Sandveld region on the West Coast is known as South Africa’s
Potato Pantry. Citrusdal unsurprisingly does a strong line in citrus and,
with nearby Clanwilliam, is also famous for rooibos and buchu.
Strawberries do well in the George area. The Stellenbosch and
Swellendam districts are also good for berries, and several farmers are
branching out into raspberries and blueberries. Swellendam produces
90% of the world’s commercially grown youngberries, a crop of about
600 tons per annum.
Wheat is another of the province’s strong sectors: the Western
Cape’s 310 000ha planted to wheat represents 64% of South Africa’s
crop. Japan is a major destination of the province’s maize production.
In canola, the Western Cape is even more dominant, with 99% of the
nation’s hectares (StatsSA).
Companies
Zeder Investments is the agricultural arm of investment holding company
PSG Group. Zeder controls Capespan, which has a turnover of R7.6-billion
ONLINE RESOURCES
Fresh Produce Exporters’ Forum: www.fpef.co.za
National Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries:
www.daff.gov.za
SA Grain Information Service: www.sagis.org.za
Western Cape Department of Agriculture: www.elsenburg.com
Dry times at Clanwilliam Dam.
across three divisions: farms,
logistics and fruit. Zeder is also a
39.6% shareholder in Kaap Agri
Ltd. Kaap Agri has more than 200
operating points.
Zeder also owns 27.2% of
Pioneer Foods which makes and
distributes many big food and
drink brands across southern
Africa, including Weet-Bix, Liqui-
Fruit, Ceres, Sasko and White Star.
Caledon-based Overberg
Agri is an unlisted company with
a wide range of investments in
several sectors, including mining,
pet food and industrial fasteners.
SSK (Sentraal Suid Ko-operasie) has
outlets in the Overberg and in the
Southern Cape as far east as George.
The Klein Karoo group
based in Oudtshoorn focusses
on ostriches through Klein
Karoo International. Separate
units deal in fashion products,
feathers, leather, skins and meat
production. Other companies
in the group cover seed sales,
auctions and retail.
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OVERVIEW
Wine and grapes
Resilience is now part of the grape-growing story.
Wine tourism in the Western Cape grew 16% in 2017
compared to 2016, according to a study done by Wesgro
and Explore Sideways. This illustrates that the value of wine
to the regional economy goes far beyond grapes and wine.
The study, which surveyed 40 tour operators responsible for 19 000
trips, also found that 99% of Cape Town-based itineraries include a trip
to the Winelands.
A Vinpro report shows that wine tourism contributes R15-billion to
the local economy. Local wine sales bring in R13.2-billion. Excise and
other taxes paid by the wine industry amounted to R6.7-billion in 2017,
up by 8% from the previous year, according to Koos Nel of Old Mutual
Personal Finance.
Wine sales and exports are the most obvious economic contributors
but in a broader sense, sectors such as agri-processing, tourism,
SECTOR INSIGHT
Wine tourism contributes
R15-billion to the regional
economy.
hospitality, manufacturing, retail
and trade are all affected by wine
grapes in one way or another.
Nel has also drawn attention
to how well the wine and grapegrowing
sector is responding to
prolonged droughts. Although the
yield in 2018 was expected to be
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OVERVIEW
about 15% lower than previous years, the harvest suffered
a much larger percentage loss than that figure. Producers
have invested in new areas, new cultivars and clones and
started using new technologies to lesson the impact of
climate change.
The Wesgro study found that wine tourists tend to
spend somewhat more than other visitors and that they
wanted bespoke tours rather than “packaged” tours.
An interesting finding was that many tourists are
just as concerned about sustainability as farmers and
producers are in the modern era. Fully 85% of wine
tourists, when booking, mentioned sustainable issues
such as biodynamic winemaking, carbon neutrality,
organic farming and social equality.
Other areas of interest that attract the most support
from visitors, according to the tour operators, are food
and wine pairings (68%), cellar tours (54%), meeting the
winemaker (51%) and food and wine tasting events (49%).
Tour operators are also branching geographically in terms
of destinations. The Hemel-en-Aarde Valley (Hermanus) is
growing in popularity, as are the Robertson Valley, Helderberg
and the Swartland. Old favourites such as Stellenbosch,
Franschhoek, Paarl and Constantia are still popular but the
appetite for something different is increasing.
The Cape Winemakers Guild meets regularly to discover
new tastes from around the world and to try to expand
members’ knowledge. Started in 1982, the Guild is made
up of experienced winemakers who want to explore their
chosen trade.
One of the Guild’s respected veterans, Beyers Truter,
believes that the best thing about the Guild is “the
dissemination of knowledge”. The openness where
one can talk about the good and bad things in wines encourages
introspection and growth. As the founder of the Pinotage Association,
Beyers is clearly a winemaker concerned about improving quality.
A Protégé Programme is offered to trainee winemakers and the
Viticulture Protégé Programme, run by the Guild in conjunction with
VinPro, offers a two-and-a-half year internship for newly graduated
viticulturists in cultivation practices.
Exports of wine
Another way of countering the effect of smaller harvests has been
to aggressively grow exports. Wine exports to Angola and China
have doubled. In the four years to 2017, wine exports to China
reached 18.2-million litres, an increase of 109%.
The Chenin Blanc Association
of SA believes that the US is a ripe
market for its wines. Financial
Mail reported in 2017 that South
Africa’s 17 799ha of Chenin
plantings is greater than the rest
of the world combined, and
many of the vines are old, which
creates better quality. SA currently
exports 11Ml/year into the US, a
small fraction of the 920Ml/year
that that country imports.
In a recent development,
wineries in greater Cape
Town now have their own
regional identity. The likes of
Groot and Klein Constantia,
Buitenverwacthing, Diermersdal
and Cape Point Vineyards will
from now on carry the label
“Wine or Origin Cape Town”,
linking them to one of the bestknown
city brands in the world.
There is a move to try to shift
South Africa’s focus away from
bulk wine sales, to bottled wines.
The website beveragedaily.com
quoted the managing director of
Origin Wines stating that for every
10-million litres of additional wine
bottled in South Africa in 2016,
additional direct income of R200-
million should accrue to the Cape
Winelands.
The decision by Britain’s
electorate to extract the country
from the EU will lead to some
complications, but the new
situation could also lead to many
new opportunities. The EU may
push for the reduction in some
of the figures set for imports
(on the basis that a chunk of
the allocation would be going
to Britain), but Britain will surely
want to negotiate a good deal
with South Africa as quickly as
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OVERVIEW
Cape Winemakers Guild protégés.
possible. France and Italy have shown a keen interest in strengthening
ties with South Africa in the months since Britain decided to leave the EU.
There are over 3 500 wine producers in South Africa, with the large
majority located in the Western Cape.
Wine is produced by estates, independent cellars and producer
cellars or co-operatives. The Distell group runs five distilleries and seven
wineries in the Western Cape, produces about a third of the country’s
natural and sparkling wine and is ranked 12th in the world in terms of
global wine volume sales.
The multi-brand KWV was sold in 2016 to consumer investment
group Vasari. Wellington Wines is a new venture that arose from the
merger of the Wellington Co-operative and the Wamakersvallei Cooperative.
DGB is a large wine and spirits company that makes much
of its own product at five famous wineries. These include Boschendal,
Bellingham and Douglas Green. Edward Snell & Co is a wine and spirits
wholesaler that also makes its own line of spirits. Fourteen brandy
distilleries can be visited on the Western Cape Brandy Route and a
further six on the R62 Brandy Route on the road east.
Table grapes
The South African Table Grape Industry Partnership (SATGI) is a
partnership whose board membership represents every growing
ONLINE RESOURCES
Cape Winemakers Guild: www.capewinemakersguild.com
Nietvoorbij Institute for Viticulture and Oenology:
www.arc.agric.za
SA Wine Industry Information & Systems: www.sawis.co.za
South African Table Grape Industry: www.satgi.co.za
Vinpro: www.vinpro.co.za
Western Cape Department of Agriculture: www.elsenburg.com
Wines of South Africa: www.wosa.co.za
region. The industry’s contribution
to the national GDP is estimated at
more than R3-billion.
The table grape industry provided
over 46 000 direct jobs during the
2015/16 harvest to the Western Cape.
The Western Cape is responsible for
65% of total production volumes in
table grapes.
There is also a significant
contribution to downstream
production income – R3.2-billion
to other product input providers,
R720-million to packaging material
suppliers and R250-million to logistics
suppliers.
On farms with black ownership,
income of R183-million was generated
in 2014/15.
Key industry figures for the annual
national harvest:
• more than 85 000 jobs
• wages valued at R950-million
• additional R600-million job
creation by suppliers in the value
chain.
Three of South Africa’s grapegrowing
regions are located in the
Western Cape:
• Olifants River: the river flows from
the Cedarburg Mountains westwards
towards the Atlantic Ocean
via Namaqualand.
• Berg River: the Du Toitskloof
Mountains are the main geographical
feature of this region
named for the strong-running
river which irrigates the fields of
grape varieties such as Red Globe,
La Rochelle and Bonheur.
• Hex River: the river runs past the
Matroosberg where snow falls
are a regular occurrence. Popular
varieties are La Rochelle, Sunred
Seedless and Barlinka.
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The South African wine
industry is on a growth path
FOCUS
Vinpro is a non-profit company which represents 2 500 wine
producers, cellars and industry stakeholders.
The South African wine industry is entering
a new phase of revival and reinvestment
following a long and arduous cycle
characterised by drought and ongoing
profitability pressures. However, the industry has
and will continue to adapt on all fronts. Not only to
maintain a sustainable source of income, but to be
able to nurture and grow its two biggest assets – its
people and its vines.
South Africa is the eighth-largest producer of
wine in the world and contributes 4% to global
production. The industry contributes R36-billion
to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and
employs close to 290 000 people.
“The only way to a sustainable supply going
forward is increasing the prices of our wines, so
that wine grape producers have sufficient financial
means to plant and renew vines, increase production,
and are able to accelerate the already significant
investment in socio-economic aspects including
further training and upliftment of their people,” says
Rico Basson, MD of the wine industry body Vinpro.
“It is encouraging to see wine grape producers
now getting back to establishing, replacing or
expanding existing vineyards,” says Rico. This growth
comes after a five-year lag in investment due to
profitability pressures.
An increase in sales, drop in production and stock
levels reaching equilibrium implied a significant
shortage of wine to service markets at 2017 levels.
Local and global wine shortages resulted in wine
prices inching higher.
Although producers are optimistic about the
2019 wine grape harvest following very good winter
rainfall in most areas, they have also learned to adapt
to climate change by making use of alternative
practices and technology, investing in new,
drought-tolerant clones and cultivars, continuously
evaluating the financial viability of vineyard blocks
and venturing into new geographical regions.
“Nearly five jobs are created for every R1-million
invested in the South African wine industry. It is the
industry’s collective responsibility, with government
and civil society, to drive transformation, ethical
trade, socio-economic development and talent
growth and retention at every level,” says Rico.
Vinpro represents South African wine grape
producers, cellars and wine-related businesses, while
providing strategic direction, rendering specialised
services and driving people development.
For more information phone 021 276 0429,
e-mail info@vinpro.co.za or visit
www.vinpro.co.za.
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The South African
Table Grape Industry
South Africa: preferred country of origin for the world’s best-tasting grapes.
The South African Table Grape Industry (SATI) is
the industry association of table grape producers
which aims to establish South Africa as the Preferred
Country of Origin for the world’s best-tasting grapes.
SATI represents growers on key government
and industry initiatives aimed at creating more
opportunities, from ownership to accessing new
markets in a sustainable way.
South African table grape growers and exporters
are committed to being a reliable supplier of table
grapes by delivering a safe, flavour-filled product of
the highest quality.
Table grape growers from South Africa meet the
highest global food safety and ethical standards
required by different world markets.
Vision
South Africa is the Preferred Country of Origin for
table grapes and will provide every table grape
producer as wide a choice as possible with profitable
markets.
Mission
SATI delivers service excellence to create a
progressive, equitable and sustainable South African
Table Grape Industry.
SATI’s key areas of intervention
• Technical market access
• Research and technology transfer
• Information and knowledge management
• Transformation
• Communication and stakeholder engagement
• Human capacity and skills development
• Technical support
SATI is funded by a grower levy and is a co-founder
and a key supporter of the Sustainability Initiative of
South Africa (SIZA).
A world of variety
There are five major growing regions in South Africa.
The difference in soil and climate enables growers to
supply the markets from November to May. The early
season is dominated by varieties from the northern
provinces and the valleys of the Orange and Olifants
Rivers, followed by table grape varieties from the
Berg River and Hex River regions.
The South African table grape industry is ideally
positioned to work with the government on all
levels to make a significant contribution to the
primary goals of the National Development Plan,
namely job creation, rural development and the
earning of foreign revenue.
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Fishing
Black owners are getting a hand on the tiller.
SECTOR INSIGHT
New fishing rights will be
allocated in 2020.
The acquisition by black-controlled Sea Harvest Group of Viking
Fishing in 2018 is part of a larger trend in which empowered
companies are taking controlling shares in fishing companies.
This is in anticipation of black shareholding likely being
a strong factor in the determination of new fishing rights, which will
happen in 2020. Sea Harvest paid R885-million for Viking. Sea Harvest has
also added to its fleet a R130-million stern-fishing trawler, which can catch
and process up 7 000 tons per year and can freeze up to 40 tons per day.
Sea Harvest’s return to the main board of the JSE in March 2017
brought to three the number of major fishing companies represented
on Africa’s biggest stock exchange. Premier Fishing also made its shares
available to the public for the first time while Oceana Group, a Tiger
Brands company, has been on the JSE for 70 years.
The Oceana Group has purchased Foodcorp’s fishing rights and a
US fishmeal and oil company, Daybrook. The biggest brand performer
for Oceana is Lucky Star canned pilchards, which enjoys 80% of market
share in South Africa.
The Western Cape is responsible for about 75% of the nation’s fishing.
The value of the national catch across 22 commercial fishing sectors is
about R6-billion. Sectors range from the highly capitalised deep-sea
trawling industry to much smaller lobster and abalone operations.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Fish SA: www.fishsa.org.za
National Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries:
www.daff.gov.za
SA Deep Sea Trawling Industry Association: www.sadstia.co.za
South African Maritime Safety Authority: www.samsa.org.za
Demersal fish such as hake and
kingklip account for 46% of the
national catch, with pelagic fish
(anchovy, pilchards and sardines)
making up 23%. Lobster makes up
11% and linefish 13%.
The National Department of
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
wants to restructure the horse
mackerel industry to promote local
fishers and processors.
Most of South Africa’s large food
companies have fishing divisions.
Pioneer Fishing, which has no
connection to the multi-product
group Pioneer Foods, controls a
canning, fishmeal and fish oil factory
in St Helena Bay and a processing
and freezing factory in the Port
Elizabeth harbour. The African
Pioneer Group holds a 40% stake
in the company, which was formed
as a joint venture with Suiderland
to control the latter’s fishing rights.
Premier Fishing and Brands
Limited, a subsidiary of Sekunjalo
Investments, runs 16 vessels
and operates at seven locations,
including a 1 760-ton cold storage
facility at the V&A Waterfront. The
company has lobster plants at Port
Nolloth and Hout Bay, and a fish
meal plant at Saldanha. Dromedaris
Visserye specialises in Cape lobster,
and supplies sardines and anchovies
to China and Japan.
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Mining
A rare earths feasibility study is underway.
Sixteen rare earth minerals have been identified north of
Vanrhynsdorp, with the most prevalent being cerium, an
important component of catalytic converters. A feasibility
study of the Steenkampskraal rare earths mine is expected
to be completed in 2019.
The acquisition in 2015 by Steenkampskraal Thorium Limited (STL)
of the shares of Rareco has given it the right to the rare earth deposits
at the Steenkampskraal monazite mine. STL, which already had the
thorium rights, is an associate of Thor Energy in Norway.
A mineral sands project on the West Coast near Lutzville and
Koekenaap is sending product to China. Australian miner Mineral
Commodities (MRC) says it will spend R5-billion to 2019 in search of
zircon, rutile, ilmenite and garnet.
Namakwa Sands is a mineral sands operation on the West Coast,
owned by Tronox. In 2017, South African resources company Exxaro
sold some of its shares but retained enough of a stake for Tronox to
keep its BEE certification. The company has a mine and concentration
plant at Brand-se-Baai and a mineral separation plant at Koekenaap
near Lutzville about 350km from Cape Town. Ilemnite, rutile and zircon
are extracted at this site and then taken to the company’s smelter at
Saldanha Bay.
Afrimat has five sand mines, two lime plants and nine aggregate
operations in the Western Cape. The Afrimat Kliprug Quarry in Durbanville
is near the AfriSam Peninsula Quarry at Killarney north-east of Milnerton
which mines greywacke stone which is then processed at the nearby plant
into concrete aggregates. Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) has operations
near Riebeeck-West and Piketberg (De Hoek). Slasto and building stone
is quarried near Clanwilliam. Consol quarries glass sand near Philippi. The
Cape Bentonite Mine near Heidelberg is run by Ecca Holdings with another
site east of Knysna at Roode Fontein. Dimension stone occurs around
Vanrhynsdorp and medium-grain granite is found at Paarl.
Limestone for cement, agricultural lime and feed lime is extracted
at several sites in the province’s western regions while kaolin is found
ONLINE RESOURCES
Council for Geoscience: www.geoscience.org.za
Geological Society of South Africa: www.gssa.org.za
Minerals Council South Africa: www.mineralscouncil.org.za
National Department of Mineral Resources: www.dmr.gov.za
SECTOR INSIGHT
Plans to mine uranium in the
Karoo are controversial.
in Noordhoek and Somerset West.
Ball clay is mined in the Albertina
area by G&W Base and Industrial
Minerals.
Beaufort West is the latest
focus of attention for new mining
in the Western Cape. Whether or
not South Africa needs nuclear
power is a hotly debated topic,
but Tasman RSA (which includes
Australian-listed Peninsula Energy
and a local group called Lukisa JV)
has a business plan for extracting
uranium in the Karoo.
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Excellence, innovation and
transparency
Staff at Superfecta Trading are electro-mechanical engineering specialists
who go the extra mile in delivering the best possible solutions.
As founder members of Superfecta
Trading, Patrick and Abigail Mphephu
have developed what used to be a
company that dealt only in facility
management into a multi-faceted electromechanical
engineering enterprise whose
partnerships with international companies gives
them the scope to offer a broad range of products
and services.
The newest addition to the portfolio is
manufacturing. Superfecta Trading has a factory
where it is assembling transformers. With an
increasing focus in South Africa on the need for
local content, the potential for this aspect of the
business to grow is enormous. Superfecta Trading
is also looking forward to providing more job
opportunities as the manufacturing side of the
business takes off.
Honesty, integrity and reliability
Teamwork at all levels is recognised as being vital to
the long-term success of the company.
Employees are encouraged to seek creative and
innovative solutions to workplace problems and to
pursue ideas and suggestions that will contribute to
increased customer satisfaction and the promotion
of the company’s strategic objectives.
Superfecta Trading will:
• Always communicate openly and honestly,
while simultaneously behaving with dignity,
trust and respect. The interests of the company
will always be the priority.
• Provide a non-discriminatory, healthy and safe
working environment, which will allow for the
growth and development of our people and
creativity and innovation.
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Services offered
System maintenance
This includes:
• Day-to-day/ad hoc
• Preventative maintenance
• Scheduled maintenance
• Servicing and repairs.
Mechanical
With a professional team of
mechanical technologists,
Superfecta prides itself on
the supply, installation and
maintenance of mechanical work.
Oil purification
Transformer oils undergo electrical stresses while the
transformer is in operation. We provide the online or
offline purification services needed to extend the life of
transformer oils.
Electrification and distribution
Superfecta is engaged in infrastructure development in rural
and urban areas through an extensive programme of installing
electricity infrastructure.
General Manager,
Noluthando Nkota
Transformers
Superfecta is a one-stop
shop for all transformer and
transformer-related work and we
pride ourselves on delivering a
comprehensive and complete
service.
High-tension electrical reticulation
Superfecta installs and
conducts repairs to hightension
electrical circuits in
many parts of South Africa, in
urban and rural areas.
CONTACT INFO
Physical address: 23 Catalunya Raceway Industrial Park,
Gosforth Park, Germiston, Johannesburg 1419
Telephone: +27 11 869 3607
Fax: +27 11 825 0086
Email: info@superfectatrading.co.za
Website: www.superfectatrading.co.za
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Oil and gas
Chevron deal means investment for Cape refinery.
South Africa’s Competition Tribunal ruled in 2018 favour of a
South African group acquiring the majority share of Chevron
SA. Off the Shelf Investments 56 becomes the first majority
black-owned oil company in South Africa.
Among the conditions imposed by the tribunal are that R6-billion
must be invested in the Western Cape refinery and that jobs must
be preserved.
A Hong Kong-based company had earlier been given the
green light by the tribunal but Off the Shelf, as an empowerment
partner of Chevron SA (and resources giant Glencore), had right
of first refusal. In addition to the 110 000 barrel a day refinery,
Chevron controls 820 petrol stations, oil storage facilities and
a lubricants plant.
The Western Cape Provincial Government reported that in 2016
the oil and gas sector contributed R1.03-billion to the province’s
gross value add. More than 7 000 direct jobs were created in ship
and rig repair sector of the oil and gas business in 2015. The oil and
gas sector is a priority sector and as such, falls under Project Khulisa.
This entails logging detailed plans with progress reports going
SECTOR INSIGHT
R500-million has been spent
on infrastructure at Saldanha
Bay.
to the Premier on a regular basis.
The Saldanha Bay Industrial
Development Zone is central
to the plan to grow the oil and
gas sectors. Large industrial
operations already exist at
Saldanha and the Port of Saldanha
Bay is the portal for the export of
South Africa’s iron ore.
The Western Cape Provincial
Government and the National
Department of Trade and Industry
have so far invested R500-million
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Petroleum Agency SA encourages investment in the oil and gas sector by assessing
South Africa's oil and gas resources, and presenting these opportunities for exploration
to oil and gas exploration and production companies.
Compliance with all applicable legislation in place to protect the environment is very
important, and rights cannot be granted without an approved Environmental
Management Plan.
Explorers must prove financial and technical ability to meet their commitments
in safe-guarding and rehabilitation of the environment.
Preparation of Environmental Management Plans requires public consultation
and a clear demonstration that valid concerns will be addressed.
Petroleum Agency SA,
based in Bellville, Cape Town,
is responsible for the promotion
and regulation of exploration
and exploitation of oil
and gas (petroleum) resources.
Contact us to find out about:
- Onshore or offshore exploration
opportunities
- Permits and rights
- Availability of geotechnical data.
+27 21 938 3500
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in the development of core infrastructure at the Saldanha Bay
IDZ. The Saldanha Bay IDZ has signed a lease agreement with the
Transnet National Ports Authority.
The Western Cape’s status as an oil and gas hub was enhanced
in August 2017 with the opening of a new open-access liquefied
petroleum gas (LPG) import and storage terminal at Saldanha Bay.
A public-private partnership is behind the R1-billion terminal, the
largest of its kind in Africa. Investors include Sunrise Energy, the
Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the Public Investment
Corporation (PIC) and Royal Bafokeng Holdings.
The newly constructed Bergun terminal, comprising 12 tanks
located on the Eastern Mole of the Port of Cape Town, has added
to the port’s fuel storage capacity and is connected by pipeline to
the Chevref refinery.
Gas
The Council for Geoscience (CGS) is doing an intensive study of South
Africa’s potential shale gas resources. The major economic sectors using
gas are the metals sector and the chemical, pulp and paper sector.
Brick and glass manufacturers are also big consumers.
Natural gas lies offshore to the west of South Africa in the Atlantic
Ocean (Ibhubesi) and off the southern coast in the Indian Ocean
(Bredasdorp Basin). Both fields have great potential: Block 2A of
the Ibhubesi gas field north-west of Saldanha is estimated to have
reserves of 850-billion cubic feet of gas and the Bredasdorp Basin
is said to have reserves of one-trillion cubic feet but getting to the
gas has been difficult.
Large quantities of oil are transported around the Cape of
Good Hope every year: 32.2% of West Africa’s oil and 23.7% of oil
emanating from the Middle East. Reduced global prices for oil and
troubles in the container ship market have caused some stress in
the local sector but the long-term prospects for shipping and oil
and gas are still strong enough for national government to pursue
Operation Phakisa (which includes a strong maritime economy
push) and for Transnet National Ports Authority to spend heavily
ONLINE RESOURCES
National Department of Energy: www.energy.gov.za
National Energy Regulator of South Africa: www.nersa.org.za
Petroleum Agency of South Africa:
www.petroleumagencysa.com
PetroSA: www.petrosa.co.za
South African Oil and Gas Alliance: www.saoga.org.za
Transnet Pipelines: www.transnet.net
on upgrading the nation’s ports.
Industrial gas manufacturing
in the Western Cape is a
particular focus for Air Products,
a part of the Metkor Group
controlled by Remgro. The
company is the largest supplier
in the pipeline and on-site
markets, and it also supplies to
the packaged chemicals, bulk
and chemicals markets.
The gas-to-liquids plant
which PetroSA runs at Mossel
Bay on the south coast is one
of the country’s key pieces of
energy infrastructure. Getting
new feedstock for this plant
is now an urgent priority.
Russia’s geological exploration
company, Rosgeo, which will see
$400-million invested and gas
delivered to the gas-to-liquids
refinery at Mossel Bay (Mossgas).
The regulator and promoter
of oil and gas exploration
in South Africa is Petroleum
Agency South Africa. In
addition to adjudicating on
coastal fields such as those
along the western and eastern
coasts of the Western Cape, the
agency has awarded coalbedmethane-gas
exploration rights
in KwaZulu-Natal and natural
gas exploration permits in the
Free State.
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Water
Lessons for the world from Cape Town’s water crisis.
When the long-term drought was at its worst, tourists
to Cape Town were encouraged to “Save like a Local”.
Together with a range of technical and legislative
measures, the campaign to get Capetonians and their
guests to use less water worked remarkably well.
Where the residents and businesses of the city were using
1.2-billion litres-per-day in 2015, by the middle of 2018 the figure
was 516-million litres. While the taps were not literally turned off
(the dreaded “Day Zero” was averted), pressure in the pipes was
drastically reduced. The International Water Association’s Water
Loss Conference in Cape Town in May 2018 reported that two of
the world’s largest advanced pressure control systems are operating
in Cape Town.
Restrictions on water use were introduced (car washing
was outlawed completely, for example) and shopping centres
introduced waterless sanitation. Cape Town’s hinterland thankfully
experienced good winter rains but the town of Beaufort West in
the Karoo continues to face a real crisis.
In 2017 Cape Town hosted Water Desalination Symposium Africa,
further evidence that relying on rain to ensure reliable supply in
the future is not being contemplated.
The coastal town of Witsand in the Hessaqua Municipality
will receive drinkable water from a plant using reverse osmosis
SECTOR INSIGHT
Solar-powered desalination
plant is a world first.
desalination technology
powered by photovoltaic solar
energy. This is world first for the
application of this combination
of technologies. French company
Mascara Renewable Water is
responsible for building the
plant, in partnership with its
local partner, TWS (Turnkey Water
Solutions).
The response to the water
crisis has included companies
such as Sea Harvest and Oceana
building their own desalination
plants. The V&A Waterfront
(pictured), and Tsogo Sun have
also invested heavily in water
projects. Old Mutual’s large
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campus in Pinelands is off the grid. The Western Cape Department
of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDAT) announced that
investment into the Green Economy reached R1.2-billion in 2017/18.
DEDAT also works on long-term water resilience with various
stakeholders through an “Economic Water Security Workstream”.
Other steps to secure future water supply include the
expenditure over R5.9-billion over five years by the City of Cape
Town on desalination projects, aquifer extraction and water reuse.
The National Department of Water and Sanitation is supposed to
be responsible for bulk water supply, but the local authority has
had to step in.
A Cape Town company has experience in rolling out desalination
plants with big capacity. GrahamTek, a PSG company based in the
Strand, is consulting on Middle East plants that produce more than
1 000-million litres per day. Another Cape-based company with
international experience is Malutsa, who have provided drinkable
water in crisis situations and have developed a robust mobile water
purifier for the military.
To find the money to deal with the drought and the longer-term
effects of climate change, the City of Cape Town issued a green
bond for the first time in 2017. It was over-subscribed and allowed
the city to get started on implementing its Climate Change Strategy.
Some of the long-term projects falling under the strategy
include new electric buses, energy efficiency measures in city
buildings, improved sewerage plants and the rehabilitation and
protection of coastal structures.
In 2030 South African demand for water will be 17% greater than
supply. That is the verdict of the 2030 Water Resources Group. The
Water Resources Group, an international consortium of private
companies, agencies and development banks, has established a
South African chapter, the Strategic Water Partners Network.
In terms of its water infrastructure and maintenance of its wastewater
treatments plants, the Western Cape fares well compared to
other South African regions.
The Western Cape Department of Agriculture has launched a
climate action plan called Smart Agri which includes doing studies
on conservation agriculture. The plan draws on the expertise of
academics and companies in the private sector.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Breede-Overberg Catchment Management Agency:
www.breedegouritzcma.co.za
National Department of Water and Sanitation: www.dwa.gov.za
South African Water Research Commission: www.wrc.org.za
Water Institute of Southern Africa: www.wisa.org.za
Water Resources Group: www.2030wrg.org
The Berg River-Voëlvlei
Augmentation Scheme entails
pumping water out of Berg River
in winter, having first allowed
for enough water to cover the
ecological water requirements
of the river and the estuary.
A Water Stewardship
programme has been
introduced in the Breede River
catchment area. WWF-South
Africa, Woolworths and Marks &
Spencer are collaborating on a
scheme encouraging stone fruit
farmers to put in place systems
that reduce risk to water supply
and quality.
WWF-SA also has a Water
Balance Programme which
works to increase the amount
of clean water coming into
the environment. Woolworths’
contribution to this plan
involves getting rid of alien
vegetation on the farm where
it sources its wines (Paul Cluver
Wines) and in the Leeu River
catchment area.
The introduction by the
Department of Water and
Sanitation and the Water
Institute of South Africa (WISA)
of the Blue and Green Drop
Awards has been successful. The
nation’s municipalities receive
scores reflecting how well they
are doing in terms of providing
clean water.
In order to win a Drop Award
(Blue for water quality, Green for
waste treatment), water systems
have to score 95% or higher. The
DWS has allocated R4.3-billion
to helping municipalities deliver
water. The Interim Water Supply
Programme concentrates on 23
district municipalities.
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Breede-Gouritz Catchment
Management Agency
FOCUS
Using water resources efficiently, effectively
and wisely to build a sustainable future.
The Breede-Gouritz Catchment Management
Agency protects, develops, conserves,
manages and controls water resources
in a large area (the Breede-Gouritz Water
Management Area, WMA) that extends from the
Atlantic Ocean in the west to the areas near the
Orange River in the north and the Umzimvubu River
in the east. Most of the WMA falls within the Western
Cape Province.
Water Use Validation and Verification
Project
This project is targeted specifically at existing water
users. The project is being implemented by the
BGCMA, together with consultants from the Council
for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The
project will conclude in 2019.
The project will confirm water use in the Breede-
Gouritz WMA, focusing on the Olifants and eastern
and western coastal rivers. Specifically, it will identify:
Who is using water? How much water is being used?
Where it is being used? What is the water being used
for? Finally, it will ask: Is the water use lawful?
The project does not address general water sector
issues, queries or concerns such as water use licence
applications, pollution, water use billing and charges.
The validation and verification of registered water
use is critical in the management and control of
CONTACT INFO
Project contact details
Jan van Staden Tel: +27 023 346 8005
Email: jstaden@bgcma.co.za
Website: www.bgcma.co.za
water resources. Without this process, there could
be unreasonable or unsubstantiated claims to water
entitlements due to over-allocation, or an unfair or
disproportionate use of water from a resource.
Detailed water use data will be prepared to
enable the BGCMA to determine which properties
in the project area have: registered their water use
correctly, under-registered their water use, overregistered
their water use or not registered their
water use.
Unlawful water use, specifically the taking and
storing of water, will come to light through the
verification process.
Information obtained from the registration
process is used to bill water users and billing will
become more efficient and accurate following the
completion of this project.
Users definition
Water users (agriculture, industrial, commercial,
mining, domestic water supply) include those who
take water directly from a watercourse (rivers and
canals), boreholes, who have dams on their properties
and who have commercial forestry plantations.
Users who receive water directly from a
municipality or a water board or use water for smallscale
domestic and non-commercial gardens or
livestock purposes (Schedule 1 use) are not affected
by the project.
IMPORTANT
Registration of water use is not an authoritisation or
entitlement to use water and is subject to validation
and verification by the BGCMA.
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The City of Cape Town established
a greentech manufacturing hub in Atlantis
in 2011, in response to the Department of
Energy’s Renewable Energy Independent
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Producer Programme (REIPPP).
Localisation of manufacturing and the
resultant job creation is one of they key
priorities of government through the REIPP
programme. The hub has already attracted
its first large Greentech investor, Gestamp
Renewable Industries (GRI). A wind tower
manufacturer, GRI has already invested
R300m and is in full-scale production.
Manufacturing
The Atlantis Special Economic Zone is poised for growth.
the proposed Atlantis SEZ (ASEZ) capitalises
on the province’s already booming
renewable energy and green
technology sector.
Greentech refers to green technologies
that reduce or reverse the impact of
people on the planet. This includes
renewable energy technologies.
Wind turbines, solar panels, insulation,
biofuels, electric vehicles, materials
recycling and green building materials
are all examples of green technology.
SECTOR INSIGHT
Green Cape has won
international recognition.
Siemens wind towers manufactured at Gestamp Renewable
Industries in Atlantis.
- Siemens wind towers manufactured at Gestamp Renewable Industries in Atlantis -
The Atlantis Special Economic Zone, which is due to be officially
certified soon, has already attracted nearly R700-million in
private-sector investment.
A Moody’s report on the green economy in Africa states
that South Africa has the fastest-growing green sector in Africa,
and one of the fastest-growing in the world. The Western Cape
is driving a green economy manufacturing strategy focussed on
Atlantis. About 70% of South Africa’s manufacturing in renewables
is happening in the Western Cape.
Atlantis was chosen in 2017 as the site of a new factory for
Czech fabric manufacturer PEGAS Nonwovens. At R1.3-billion, the
investment is the biggest secured by Wesgro and Into SA since 2011.
Training for local residents employed by the manufacturer will take
place in the Czech Republic.
Fridge manufacturer Hisense, already established at Atlantis, is
exploring ways to make its product greener, either through its own
processes or via its suppliers. The 500 employees at the Atlantis
factory produce fridges and televisions that are exported to 13
African countries.
Green Cape is an agency that does research and runs projects
in areas such as energy efficiency, waste, water and sustainable
agriculture. It is a joint initiative of the City of Cape Town, Wesgro
and the Provincial Government of the Western Cape. The Western
Cape Industrial Symbiosis Programme (WISP), which encouraged
manufacturers to use the waste
products of other businesses,
won international recognition in
2018 when it was runner-up in the
Circular Awards at Davos.
Growth in the Western Cape
manufacturing sector between
2003 and 2013 averaged 2.2%
and the Provincial Economic
Review and Outlook predicts the
same level of growth to 2020. A
diverse manufacturing sector
contributes 15% to the Western
Cape’s GDP.
The agri-processing sector
(including food and beverages
and tobacco) is the largest
employer (24%) followed
by metals, metal products,
machinery and equipment at
19%. A proposed Cape Health
Technology Park will further boost
the growth of the manufacture of
medical devices.
The decision by Britain to
leave the European Union has led
to increased interest in bilateral
trading relations with individual
European countries. France has
established a tech hub in Cape
Town and Business France has
been facilitating a number of
conferences and visits. More
than 300 French firms currently
operate in South Africa.
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Boat building
Atlantis is home to Admiral Boat Manufacturers and Phoenix Marine,
both specialist catamaran manufacturers, and Celtic Yachts who make
catamarans and cruising yachts. Ullman Sails make sails in Maitland
while Two Oceans Marine Manufacturing constructs its catamarans
on the Foreshore.
Southern Wind in Athlone manufacture high-performance
super yachts. Robertson & Caine’s facility in Woodstock produces
three boats a week for the international market. With a staff
complement of 1 350, a record of having launched more than
1 300 vessels and a subsidiary company in Tampa, Florida, the
company is a world leader in power catamarans and sailing
catamarans.
Nautic Africa makes larger vessels, including patrol, defence,
oil and gas platforms and commercial vessels. They are also active
in service and support, parts and spares, and vessel leasing and
management.
The Whisper Boat Building Academy is located at the False Bay
TVET College.
Food and beverages
The combination of excellent and plentiful agricultural produce, good
manufacturing capacity and a skilled workforce give the Western
Cape a competitive advantage in the food and beverages sector.
A sophisticated transport infrastructure system allows it to service
international markets.
Famous Brands has bought a famous Western Cape brand in
its drive for greater backward integration. Lamberts Bay Foods
supplied Famous Brands restaurants with chips for two decades.
With its purchase from Oceana, Famous Brands now has greater
control over a menu item at all of its 26 restaurant brands, including
Wimpy, Fishaways and Mugg & Bean. Lamberts Bay Food sources
potatoes from all over South Africa, but its proximity to the potatogrowing
Sandveld region is helpful.
British American Tobacco, which has about 65% of the legal
ONLINE RESOURCES
Cape Chamber of Commerce: www.capetownchamber.com
Cape Town Boatbuilding and Technology Initiative (CTBi):
www.ctbi.co.za
National Department of Trade and Industry: www.thedti.gov.za
Wesgro: www.wesgro.co.za
domestic market, has moved its
administrative headquarters to
the Waterfront.
The wheat-growing areas
of the Swartland host several
mills such as Sasko’s facility
in Malmesbury. Bokomo has
several manufacturing facilities
in Atlantis, Epping, Ndabeni
near Pinelands, Worcester and
Bonnievale. Safari Vinegar is
based in the Strand and there
are two Heinz manufacturing
plants at Wellington and Atlantis.
Two of the biggest chicken
processing facilities are located
on the N7 highway (Tydstroom)
and on the N1 (Rainbow
Chickens). The Western Cape
has about 16 000 commercial
pork sows and produces a
quarter of South Africa’s milk.
Willards has a factory in
Goodwood, in nearby Parow
there is a Simba factory and local
chip and snack manufacturer
Messaris, which has been in
operation since 1898, has a
facility in Elsies River. Nestlé
produces condensed milk and
milk powder in Mossel Bay and
canned pet food in Cape Town.
Tiger Brands makes mayonnaise
in Bellville and has also invested
heavily in its prepared meals
plant in Cape Town.
SABMiller’s Newlands
brewery is one of the busiest in
the country as it is responsible
for providing product for a very
large geographical area.
Coca-Cola bottler and
distributor Peninsula Beverage
has three plants – at Parow,
Athlone and Vredendal on the
West Coast, and employs 1 300
people.
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Construction and property
Cape Town aims to integrate housing and transport planning.
SECTOR INSIGHT
The V&A Waterfront’s Canal District
is booming.
New York has The Battery. Cape Town now has
Battery Park, pictured. Fort Amsterdam was built in
1626 as the headquarters of the Dutch West Indies
Company on what we now know as Manhattan.
The Amsterdam Battery was built on Cape Town’s shores in
1784 to protect the traders of the Dutch East Indies Company
from the aggressive intent of other trading powers.
Two walls from the original structure have been maintained
in the R300-million conversion of the site of the old Dutch
fort to a public park that marks the eastern entrance to the
V&A Waterfront. This is part of the larger project to expand
development along the canals, which link the Waterfront with
the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CITCC) and
have become a focus area in themselves. Waterway House,
where British American Tobacco has recently established its
headquarters, is near the park, as is the Queen’s Hotel, which
is undergoing a renovation.
Cape Town has been experiencing a property boom for
several years. However, the FNB August Property Barometer
reports that the average growth in house prices in select
areas such as the Atlantic seaboard (shown on the next
page) and the city bowl was much lower in the second
quarter of 2018 than it was in 2016. It could be argued that
average growth in house prices of 27.7% (Atlantic seaboard)
and 23.9% (city bowl) were so high in 2016 that those sorts
of figures could not be repeated. FNB property analyst John
Loos was quoted in the Sunday Times saying that “people got
over-excited” and suggested that there might be an oversupply
of flats in parts of the city. The CEO of
development company FWJK, Dave Williams-
Jones, noted that contractors’ margins were
tight but said development would carry on.
He also said, “Each new development is worth
about 5 000 jobs.”
Research shows that the demand for
housing will not abate soon. Cape Town has
adopted a long-term Transport Oriented
Development (TOD) plan which look at
housing density in conjunction with transport
patterns. It is estimated that greater Cape
Town will need 500 000 new homes by 2023,
in addition to 3.5-million square metres of office
space, one-million square metres of retail space
and 4.5-million square metres of industrial
development.
To deal with these issues, Cape Town
has established the Transport and Urban
Development Authority (TDA). The TDA
is charged with getting the right mix of
urban development and travel patterns.
With responsibility for transport, urban
planning, public housing and environmental
sustainability in one place, there is a better
chance of “joined-up” thinking.
Part of this strategy can be seen in plans
for mixed housing on 13 sites in Salt River and
Woodstock that the City of Cape Town has
made available at 10% of market value. Social
housing non-profit company Communicare
has been working with the city on the project
which envisages 30% of the housing stock
being available for low-income households,
14% for the gap market and the rest of the
houses being available on the open market.
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Growth areas
George on the southern Cape coast has seen some substantial
new developments, including a private hospital built for
Mediclinic, some new malls and a number of estates. Fancourt
in George was one of the first golf estates in South Africa. In 2017
a set of new plots were offered for sale on what was described
as its “prized northern slopes”.
An area that continues to grow in terms of residential
property is the West Coast. With mountains to the east,
it is logical that areas north of Cape Town will grow: the
only constraint is access to water. Blouberg, Parklands and
Sunningdale continue to grow and attract good houses
for residential property. The MiCiti bus route now serving
the West Coast makes commuting to town much easier.
Voortrekker Road in Cape Town is the subject of several
interventions to encourage bulking up (businesses and
residential). The Greater Tygerberg Partnership is working to
provide a catalyst for new developments that will build on
ONLINE RESOURCES
Cape Town Transport and Urban Development Authority:
www.tda.gov.za
SA Estate Agency Affairs Board: www.eaab.org.za
SA Institute of Architects: www.saia.org.za
SA Institute of Valuers: www.saiv.org.za
the area’s existing strengths: transport links,
medical facilities, retail, motor dealerships
and residential.
Possible construction projects
could respond to the need for student
accommodation: 100 000 students are in the
area. The Greater Tygerberg Partnership has
done a study on students’ accommodation
needs and is encouraging building owners
to cater to this need.
The Voortrekker Road Corridor
already has services and an established
built environment, but it also has some
dilapidated structures and it also has lots
of open spaces. In other words, it has lots
of potential.
A pilot scheme will turn the 22ha site of
the old Conradie Hospital, which lies not
far from Voortrekker Road in the suburb
of Pinelands, into a housing development
aligned with the provincial government’s
concept of Live, Work and Play. With the
state (provincial or city government)
putting in the bulk infrastructure, costs
for developers would be significantly
reduced – the quid pro quo is that the
developer must then set aside a certain
number of housing units (49%) to grantfunded
housing.
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Maritz Electrical
Delivering projects within budget, on time and
to clients’ expectations, every time.
From commercial electrical applications to
high-end floodlights and sports stadiums
and spotlights using state-of-the-art products,
Maritz Electrical delivers end-to-end
electrical solutions tailored to clients’ needs.
Delivering service excellence and exceptional
quality are key differentiators for Maritz Electrical
and what clients have come to expect.
Maritz Electrical is an empowerment company
established by Kurt Maritz in January 2000. Maritz
Electrical is BBBEE compliant (Level 1 contributor).
It is ISO 9001 certified and fully compliant with the
Occupational Health and Safety Act with a full-time,
trained safety representative.
In 2018 the company’s three branches were
consolidated, with all 150 staff members now
working out of a newly renovated 3 000-squaremetre
factory and office facility in Athlone. The
company employs full-time, licensed installation
and master electricians. The company’s artisans
have completed the ORHVS.
Maritz Electrical places great emphasis on its
relationship with clients, private or commercial,
and prides itself on the ability to respond to any
contracting requirements in an efficient and costeffective
way. Maritz Electrical aims to contribute
positively to the South African economy, provide
excellent workmanship and be a leader in quality
service provision.
Select current projects
Coetzenburg Athletics Stadium is undergoing a R40-
million revamp and Maritz Electrical is part of the team
of contractors charged with making it happen to the
highest specifications. Apart from Varsity Athletics and
national championships, Stellenbosch hosted more
than 150 international athletes over the summer as
they prepared for the World Athletic Championships.
Maritz Electrical has been contracted by the
municipalities of Stellenbosch and Overstrand for
electrification of large housing projects. This is a
relatively new area for Maritz and one in which the
company is building specialist skills.
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World first
In 2017, St George’s Park became the world’s first
International Cricket Council-compliant, LED-lit
stadium and the first such stadium to be fitted with
theatrics. Maritz Electrical won the contract to install
the Musco Lighting system at the venue after visiting
the US with officials from Eastern Province Cricket
and the national cricket board.
Over four days in December 2017, the famous
ground celebrated the landmark of being the first
South African venue to host a day-night Test match,
against Zimbabwe. The R27-million contract was
completed on time and on budget by a team
from Maritz Electrical led by Warren Williams. Two
project managers from Musco Lighting supported
the installation. The lights on top of the Duckpond
Pavilion were hoisted at night, the process being
illuminated by floodlight.
Other flagship projects
• Cape Town Grand Parade: Re-lit with Musco
fixtures to improve the lighting level to reduce
the personal crimes being committed because
of poor lighting.
• Cape Town Festive Lights including Adderley,
Strand and Main streets: Maritz Electrical installs
the popular Festive Lights.
• Security lighting for waste-water treatment plants:
Musco’s metal halide and LED system is the preferred
product of Cape Town’s Department of
Water and Sanitation and Maritz Electrical is the
proud installer.
Services
Maritz Electrical works closely with its
customers, ensuring that the task or project
is completed on time and on budget, using
the highest-quality products available. In
particular, Maritz Electrical has become a
premier supplier and installer of dedicated
sports lighting. This includes schools,
universities and multi-sports stadia.
The company works in all residential
and commercial areas of electrical
installation and maintenance. Its electrical
services include project management,
design, supply and installation of
electrical systems including:
• Electrical and reticulation services
• Testing and commissioning
• Water analysis, monitoring,
management and purification systems
• Lighting and power
• External lighting
• Mechanical services integration
• Emergency switchgear
• HV and LV switchgear
• Pre-planned maintenance.
Professional memberships
BBBEE Level 1. ISO 9001 certified. Electrical
Contractors Association. Master Builders
Association member. Member of South
African Institute of Lighting (SAIL).
CONTACT DETAILS:
Physical address: 11 Noll Avenue, Athlone, Cape Town 7764
Tel: +27 21 703 0867
Fax: 0864 552 436
Email: tenders@maritzelectrical.co.za
Website: www.maritzelectrical.co.za
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Banking and financial services
Japanese and French companies are investing.
SECTOR INSIGHT
Venture capitalists are active
in Cape Town.
The financial services sector employs more than 50 000 people
and the Western Cape hosts 17 companies which are listed
on the stock exchange.
According to Wesgro, 75% of the venture capital deals
that happen in South Africa originate in the Western Cape. Most
financial firms based in Cape Town have a long history, some going
back as far as 1845 when Old Mutual (pictured) started life as The
Mutual Life Assurance Society of the Cape of Good Hope. But it is
also a dynamic sector with several banks establishing fintech hubs
in the city to try to get ahead of the innovation curve.
A newcomer to the Cape financial services sector is Nomura,
a Japanese financial holding company. The company intends
expanding its services into Southern Africa.
The new green bond issued by the City of Cape Town is a sign
of the “climate change” times. South Africa’s third-ever green bond
attracted bids over R4-billion on an initial offering on projects worth
R1-billion. The JSE intends opening a green section to deal with the
expected growth of such instruments. The lead arranger for the
bond was Rand Merchant Bank.
The finance and insurance sector contributes 10.9% to provincial
GDP and is an area of the economy that shows consistent growth.
The sector outperforms most
other sectors according to the FNB
Chart Book, and further growth
is anticipated. New financial
services companies are starting
or relocating to the Cape. These
range from asset managers to
hedge funds, venture capitalists
and insurers.
The decision by the
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
(JSE) to open a JSE Exchange Hub
in Cape Town confirms the city’s
importance in the financial world.
There are eight Cape Town-based
companies in the Top 40 Index of
the JSE: Capitec Bank, Mediclinic,
Naspers, Woolworths, British
American Tobacco, Remgro,
Shoprite Holdings and Sanlam.
The head offices of financial
firms are dotted all over Cape
Town. These include Old Mutual
and Foord (Pinelands), Coronation
(Newlands), Prudential
(Claremont), Sygnia (Green
Point), Sanlam (Bellville) and
Allan Gray (Waterfront). PSG has
its headquarters in Stellenbosch
and is well represented in rural
towns. Insurers such as Santam
and Metropolitan Life are based
in Bellville.
Fintech is increasingly
important to financial institutions.
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Barclays’ app development organisation, Rise, has seven
outlets around the world, including one in Woodstock
in Cape Town. A French-funded fintech operation was
launched at Century City in 2016.
The African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk
Management (AIFMRM) aims is to meet the demands for
skills by developing local talent. It is supported by the
Western Cape Provincial Government, the University of
Cape Town, Barclays Africa Group, FirstRand and Liberty.
The insurance market has become more varied over
time, with a greater variety of products now available to
more market segments, including middle-income earners.
A typical example of a specific product that is responding
to new realities is Old Mutual’s iWYZE medical gap cover,
designed to pay the difference between what a medical aid
scheme is willing to pay and what the hospital or doctor
is charging.
Banks
A number of new licences for banks are in the pipeline,
with the first of these being a digital bank. The banking
ONLINE RESOURCES
Auditor-General South Africa: www.agsa.co.za
Banking Association South Africa:
www.banking.org.za
Financial Sector Conduct Authority: www.fsca.co.za
Insurance Institute of South Africa:
www.iisa.co.za
JSE Limited: www.jse.co.za
South African Institute of Chartered Accountants:
www.saica.co.za
licence issued in 2017 to Take Your Money
Everywhere (Tyme, by Commonwealth
Bank of Australia) is the first to be issued
since Capitec was granted a licence by
the South African Reserve Bank in 1999.
Capitec, with its roots in Stellenbosch,
has since gone on to become a major
player on the South African retail banking
scene. It now merits inclusion in a new
“Big Five”, with Standard Bank, Absa,
FNB and Nedbank. In terms of assets,
the five biggest banks are Standard Bank,
FirstRand (which owns FNB), Absa (which
is part of Barclays Group Africa), Nedbank
and Investec. According to the Reserve
Bank, this group had 89% of market share
in 2015.
Merchant banking and investment
banking are the most competitive
sectors with companies such as BoE
Private Clients, Rand Merchant Bank and
Investec prominent.
Other applicants for new banking
licences are Discovery and Post Bank, a
division of the South African Post Office.
Discovery is already a giant on the JSE
(market value of R83-billion) with a wide
range of products and services that
give it access to millions of customers.
Life insurer MMI Holdings is entering a
partnership with African Bank to enable
it to start taking deposits and loaning
money.
Banks are working hard to offer
products to the previously unbanked.
Nedbank has partnerships with shops
such as Boxer Stores and Pick n Pay where
customers can have access to financial
services in previously unserviced areas
and also on all days of the week such as
public holidays and Sundays.
Standard Bank’s community-banking
initiative offers a low-cost cellphonebanking
service. Retailers can act as agents
for the bank, even in very remote rural
areas. Shops such as Shoprite, Pep and
Spar are connected, as are certain spazas.
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Development finance and
SMME support
The Centre for Entrepreneurship has opened at False Bay TVET College.
Provincial government, represented by the Department of
Economic Development, Agricultural and Tourism (DEDAT),
and the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) have teamed
up to give small business access to funding. More than
R15-million has been loaned to 280 SMMEs between 2014 and 2018
by the DEDAT/NEF Enterprise Development Fund. Other partners
of the provincial government include:
• Deloitte, the Western Cape Funding Fair
• Absa, business skills training
• Pick n Pay, Township Economic Revitalisation Programme, which
entails upgrading of spaza shops into mini-supermarkets. Nozinga’s
market in Gugulethu has created 15 new jobs.
Using the supply chain is a good way to create new businesses and
retailers like Pick n Pay, Woolworths and Shoprite invest heavily in
such programmes. DEDAT’s Agri-Processing Supplier Development
Programme assisted 21 businesses in the 2017/18 financial year. An
investment of R2.5-million achieved good results in terms of increased
turnover and job creation. Darling Sweet (pictured) has grown into a
substantial business with 21 full-time staff.
The annual Western Cape SMME Opportunity Roadshow
showcases opportunities, allows for relevant networking and guides
small businesses on how to get their products and services into the
mainstream of the economy. The Roadshow, which is also held in Port
Elizabeth, Durban and Johannesburg, is supported by the Department
of Small Business Development.
The Philippi Village Container Walk houses key-cutters, buildingmaterial
suppliers, hairdressers and clothes shops. With the backing
of the IDC, the two-storey creations house retail shops on the bottom
floor and offices on the top floor. Several NGOs have a presence and
training is available for entrepreneurs. Philippi Village is a joint venture
between Business Activator and the Bertha Foundation, a global
philanthropic foundation.
Cape Gateway, the website of the Western Cape government,
lists 50 SMME support organisations in the province. These range
from the provincial trade and investment promotion agency, Wesgro,
to smaller community institutions and business initiatives. Several
SECTOR INSIGHT
Support funding hit the
sweet spot for a Darling
toffee maker.
industry bodies also exist to assist
SMMEs in sectors such as clothing
and textiles, arts and crafts, and
boatbuilding, as well as training
centres in areas identified as
having high unemployment and
skills shortages.
The National Department of
Small Business Development
(DSBD) has several programmes to
assist SMMEs and co-operatives.
These include:
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• The Black Business Supplier Development Programme, a costsharing
grant to promote competitiveness
• The Co-operative Incentive Scheme, a 100% grant
• The Small Enterprise Development Agency is an agency of the DSBD
that gives non-financial support to entrepreneurs through training,
assistance with filling in forms, marketing and creating business
plans. It helps small businesses draft applications for loan finance.
Seda has established a Rapid Incubator in partnership with the Centre
for Entrepreneurship (CFE) at False Bay TVET College, Westlake Campus.
Intended to encourage TVET graduates to start their own businesses,
the focus is on metal fabrication and furniture making. The Rapid
Incubation Programme encourages innovative thinking and promotes
students, entrepreneurs and potential clients to interact. Learning how
to commercialise products and services is a key element of the course.
Business Partners Limited is described by Seda as “one of the more
successful SMME support organisations”. With a head office in central
Cape Town, Business Partners is an unlisted company that offers loans,
mentorship, consulting and business support.
The National Gazelles is a national SMME accelerator jointly funded
by Seda and the DSBD. The aim is to identify and support small
businesses with growth potential across priority sectors aligned with
the National Development Plan and Seda’s SMME strategy. Businesses
can receive up to R1-million for training, productivity advice, business
skills development and the purchase of equipment.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Cape Gateway: www.capegateway.gov.za
Industrial Development Corporation: www.idc.co.za
National Small Business Chamber: www.nsbc.org.za
PERA: www.wcpremiersawards.co.za
Small Enterprise Development Agency: www.seda.org.za
Small Enterprise Finance Agency: www.sefa.org.za
SMME Opportunity Roadshow: www.smmesa.co.za
The Industrial Development
Corporation (IDC) is a strong
supporter of SMMEs either by
disbursing loans or by taking
minority shares in enterprises
and giving advice. The Masisizane
Fund offers loan financing at good
rates and training through its
Business Accelerator programme.
As a non-profit initiative of the Old
Mutual Group, the fund focusses
on the cash flow of potential
businesses rather than insisting
on security in the form of property
or something similar.
All the major banks have
SMME offerings. Standard Bank’s
Community Investment Fund
(CIF) initiative extends loans to
informal businesses. The CIF has
distributed more than R7-million
to more than 630 businesses
through its six funds in three
provinces.
Nedbank has an enterprisedevelopment
product that
supports businesses with a
turnover up to R35-million with
at least 25% black ownership.
The Shanduka Black Umbrellas
incubator helps entrepreneurs
convert their good ideas to
sustainable business practice.
The Afrikaansehandelsinstituut
(AHI) has rebranded as the Small
Business Institute. Representing
over a hundred chambers, the
SBI is a member of Business Unity
South Africa.
The National Small Business
Chamber (NSBC) has a base of
over 125 000 SMEs and 50 big
brands as partners. A memberbased
organisation that offers
benefits, the NSBC runs surveys
and hosts expos, networking
events and awards functions.
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Education and training
An investment company is banking on private schooling.
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The private school market recently gained a new entry with the
building of a Generation Education campus in Sunningdale
north of Cape Town. With a Montessori-based curriculum
and the backing of investment company Trematon Capital
Investments, the school will initially be open for children up to 12.
Trematon has exposure in the real estate market and is looking to
expand the Generation Education venture.
The private schooling sector is growing fast. JSE-listed ADvTECH has
multiple school and tertiary brands. Schools include Abbotts College
(which began in Cape Town) and Crawford College while there are
several tertiary institutions in the company’s portfolio, such as Varsity
College. Curro Holdings is also listed on the JSE and is rapidly growing
its range of schools. It aims to have 500 schools by 2030. Curro’s tertiary
brands have listed separately as Stadio, which has started with five
institutions.
The LEAP Science and Maths School model (pictured) is far from the
JSE company model: these schools have low fees and raise funds to
survive but they offer excellent teaching, particularly in mathematics,
science and English. Two schools in Cape Town (and six schools in
South Africa) enable children from black townships to do well enough
at school in mathematics and science to go on to study engineering
at university.
SECTOR INSIGHT
Apprenticeships are on offer
from various institutions.
Skills training
The South African economy
needs skilled workers. The
nation’s universities have a good
reputation for teaching and
research and the Western Cape’s
three universities and university
of technology are among the
best, but the focus is shifting to
training young people in skills
relevant to the workplace.
A Centres of Specialisation
Programme has been introduced
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through the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to
tackle 13 priority skills. False Bay TVET College was selected as a Centre
of Specialisation with a focus on training riggers and mechanical fitters.
With the oil and gas sector expected to grow rapidly in the near future,
trained artisans can expect to find employment quickly.
The Western Cape has further honed the priority sectors down to
five and is keeping track of the young people who join its programmes.
As of December 2017, 6 782 young people had registered for workplacebased
programmes in 62 of the 91 occupations identified as relevant
to the priority sectors. Opportunities to work as interns in provincial
government departments are available. The Premier’s Advancement
of Youth Project (PAY) has given work experience, a set of skills and
something to put on their CV to 4 300 matriculants since 2012.
Another provincial initiative was launched 2016: the Western Cape’s
Apprenticeship Game Changer, which aims to introduce 32 500 qualified
apprentices into the labour market by 2019. R1-billion has been allocated
over a three-year time frame.
Airports Company SA (ACSA), the City of Cape Town and the False
Bay TVET College in Westlake have combined in an initiative to offer
residents of Blikkiesdorp a chance to learn skills in brick-laying, housebuilding,
scaffolding and health and education. ACSA is investing
R5-million in the 12-month certification project and the Construction
Education and Training Authority (CETA) will channel funds to False
Bay TVET College to enable it to roll out training.
SARETEC is another institution offering industry-specific training.
The South African Renewable Energy Technology Centre is managed
by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Bellville campus) but
it collaborates with several other institutions and private companies.
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges
offer a range of diplomas and short courses in many skills.
False Bay TVET College has campuses in Fish Hoek, Muizenberg,
Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha and Westlake. The College of Cape Town
(CCT) has nine outlets and caters to the central city. Northlink College
is in the northern suburbs of Cape Town.
Outside of the Cape metropole, Boland College looks after
Stellenbosch, Worcester, Paarl and Caledon, while the Southern Cape
College covers a wide area, from George to Beaufort West. The West
Coast College also has a big catchment area. Boland College participates
ONLINE RESOURCES
LEAP Science and Maths Schools: www.leapschool.org.za
TVET colleges: www.tvetcolleges.co.za
Western Cape Education Department:
www.wcedonline.westerncape.gov.za
in an Expanded Public Works
Programme (EPWP) run by the
South African Chefs’ Association.
Tertiary education
The 2018 Quacquarelli Symonds
(QS) World University Rankings,
ranked the University of Cape
Town in the top 200 universities
in the world and the top-ranked
institution in Africa. The rankings
are based on six indicators:
academic peer review, faculty/
student ratio, citations per
faculty, employer reputation,
international student ratio and
international staff ratio.
These three institutions, plus
the Cape Peninsula University
of Technology, produce
approximately 12 000 science,
technology, engineering and
mathematics graduates every
year and host 11 000 students
from other African countries.
The University of Cape Town
has more than 21 500 students, 720
permanent staff and 39 A-rated
researchers (40% of South Africa’s
total). Stellenbosch University is
linked to Stellenbosch’s growing
reputation as a technology hub.
The University of the Western
Cape is home to several national
research bodies.
University education is
available in George through the
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
University (NMMU): Saasveld is
home to the School of Natural
Resource Management and the
York Street Campus delivers
courses in business and social
science, accounting and business
management.
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Apprenticeship
Game Changer
In 2016, as part of the Skills Game Changer
Initiative, the Department of Economic
Development and Tourism (DEDAT) embarked
on a project aimed at the hospitality sector. The
project saw learners trained in Front of House
Hostess and Table Attendant skills programmes.
DEDAT funded the training programme, and
then partnered the Training Service Provider
with Host Employers, who then offered the
learners internships. It gave the host companies
a chance to assess individuals in the hope of
making longer-term appointments.
Two individuals who stood out were Shumeez
September and Megan Booysen.
In conjunction with this project, DEDAT furthered
the Skills Game Changer Initiative. This resulted
in piloting National Artisan Recognition of Prior
Learning (ARPL) toolkits for apprentices who
had been identified for Trade Tests.
Shumeez September Shumeez joined Quay
4 in November 2016 as part of the Hostess
Skills Programme. She started on the door as
a hostess. She was very quiet and shy when
she joined the company, but quickly found her
feet and began standing out for her hard work
and dedication. She was placed on Tourvest’s
Management Development Programme. She is
currently working as a Junior Manager at Quay
4 Tavern at the V&A Waterfront.
DEDAT also undertook an accelerated RPL
intervention, with the aim of providing access to
RPL gap training. This culminated in a Trade Test
application, based upon the implementation of
the ARPL toolkit in a particular trade.
The project was required to focus on toolkits
registered with the Quality Council for Trades
and Occupations (QCTO), through the National
Artisan Moderating Body (NAMB). After
discussion with working group members and
NAMB, it was decided to use the provisional
toolkits for Motor, Diesel and Welding. The
project targeted 30 candidates: 10 in Motor
Mechanics, 10 in Diesel Mechanics and 10 in
Welding.
Megan Booysen Megan joined Quay 4 in
November 2016 as part of the Table Attendant
Skills Programme. She worked hard and was
quickly promoted to being a waitress after
passing the company’s waitron test. She is still
employed at Quay 4 Tavern.
One of the participants was Jeffrey Flandorp,
a self-employed, semi-skilled motor mechanic.
Jeffrey proved to be one of the best candidates
in the programme. He was actively engaged in
assisting and supporting his fellow participants
in the course of the training, and ultimately was
a catalyst in some of them achieving success in
the programme.

With an apprentice on your team, you
can add value to your reputation as an
empowering enterprise and improve your
company’s B-BBEE scorecard.
Taking on an apprentice just got simpler.
Contact the Red Tape Reduction Unit on
redtape@westerncape.gov.za.
Making things simpler
BETTER TOGETHER.

PROFILE
False Bay TVET College
A gateway to employment, higher education and self-improvement.
About the College
False Bay TVET College is rated one of the best
Technical and Vocational Education and Training
(TVET) colleges in the country. False Bay TVET
College operates five well-resourced campuses
located in the South Peninsula, Mitchells Plain and
Khayelitsha, which collectively have an enrolment
of around 11 000 students.
False Bay TVET College has been extending its
reach, embracing new communities and welcoming
industries for over 15 years, while building on
its long-term commitment to promoting the TVET
sector. The College has strong ties with industry and
the communities it serves and maintains strategic
partnerships with government, the SETAs, industry
bodies and both local and international educational
institutions.
The College’s growth is underpinned by strong
leadership, sound administration systems and
controls that were recognised when the College
received the PFMA Clean Audit Award for 2016/2017.
False Bay TVET College understands and promotes
the important role of employers in providing
workplace experience, internship and employment
opportunities to College students and graduates.
Private and Public organisations now recognise
that the only way to assist young people to gain
work experience and increase their employability
is through engaging with them and opening up
workplace opportunities.
False Bay TVET College courses:
• Business Studies
• Engineering Studies
• Hospitality and Tourism
• Information Communication Technology
• Education Studies
• Yacht and Boat Building
• 2D Animation
• Safety and Security
CONTACT DETAILS
Central Office: +27 21 787 0800
Muizenberg: +27 21 788 8373
Mitchells Plain: +27 21 391 0717
Fish Hoek: +27 21 782 0144
Khayelitsha: +27 21 361 3430/360 5000
Westlake: +27 21 701 1340
Website: www.falsebaycollege.co.za
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Improving the prospects
of employment
FOCUS
False Bay TVET College offers relevant programmes.
False Bay TVET College offers vocational,
occupational and skills training programmes that
provide students with scarce and critical skills and
practical experience in fields that present good
prospects of employment. All College programmes
are examined and certified nationally.
The College has a special focus on apprenticeship
training in the following trades: Electrical, Motor
Mechanics, Welding and Fabrication, Fitting and
Turning, Automotive Body Repair, Spray-Painting,
Masonry, Plumbing, and Carpentry and Joinery.
Courses are also offered in Business Management,
Information and Communication Technology,
Hospitality, Engineering, Tourism, Yacht and Boat
Building, Safety in Society, 2D Animation and
Education Studies. The College offers alternative
modes of teaching and training, including part-time
classes and distance learning options.
Work-Integrated Learning (WIL)
Work-Integrated Learning extends learning to the
workplace in a structured programme, integrating
theoretical knowledge learnt in the classroom
and its practical application in the workplace. The
College employs five dedicated WIL Officers who
provide graduates with work-placement support.
This service helps connect students to internship
opportunities and prepares them for the world of
work via the work-readiness programme.
Among the special benefits for
participating companies, regardless of the
sector they operate in, are:
• Improving their company B-BBEE scorecards
• Increasing business opportunities
• Access to mandatory and discretionary SETA
benefits
• Relief staff, enabling the release of full-time
staff for training and upskilling. Improving staff
retention and the job satisfaction rate
• Indirect marketing opportunities
• Informal endorsement as a preferred supplier.
Having successfully placed 92% of all graduates in
2017, the WIL Department invites more companies
to register as host employers.
CONTACT DETAILS
Work-Integrated Learning Department:
+27 21 787 0800
Email: jobplacement@falsebay.org.za
Website: www.falsebaycollege.co.za
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PROFILE
College of Cape Town
for TVET
The College is a public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) College,
under the Department of Higher Education and Training. Qualifications offered are
accredited, affordable and quality assured by Umalusi, various SETAs and SAQA.
Mission
We are committed to being an institution of
excellence that develops the potential of clients
through quality education and training in response
to the skills development needs of the country.
Vision
College of Cape Town will be the preferred provider
of Technical and Vocational Education and Training.
Educational offerings
The College is a leading provider of education and
training in mainly the Technical and Vocational
Education and Training (TVET) band and has much
to offer students and prospective partners as an
alternative to Basic and Higher Education and
Training. Qualifications include skills programmes,
technical, vocational and occupational training that
lead to recognised, accredited qualifications that are
CONTACT DETAILS
Key contact people:
Louis van Niekerk, Principal
Wilfred Jackson, Chief Financial Officer
Deon Halls, Acting Deputy Principal: Innovation
& Development
Tel: +27 21 404 6700 | 086 010 3682
Fax: +27 21 404 6701 | 086 615 0582
Email: info@cct.edu.za
Physical address: 334 Albert Road, Salt River,
Cape Town 7945
Postal address: PO Box 1054, Cape Town 8000
Website: www.cct.edu.za
in high demand by commerce and industry. The
College is also a Centre of Specialisation for Plumbing
and Automotive Motor Mechanic trades, as well as
an accredited trade test centre for numerous trades.
Facilities
The College is situated in the central area of the
Peninsula with campuses located in Athlone, City
centre, Crawford, Gardens, Guguletu, Pinelands,
Thornton and Wynberg. The Central Office is located
in Salt River, Cape Town. The College of Cape Town
also has three residences.
Key facts and figures
The College of Cape Town is the oldest Technical
and Vocational Education and Training Institution
in South Africa with a proud history dating back
to the beginning of the 20th century. Four former
technical colleges, Athlone College, Cape College,
Sivuyile College and Western Province Technical
College, were officially merged on 1 February 2002
to become the College of Cape Town.
• No of staff: 760
• No of registered students: 15 398
Faculties: Art and Design, Beauty Therapy, Building
and Civil Engineering, Business Studies, Education
and Training, Electrical Engineering, Haircare,
Hospitality, Information and Communication
Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Travel and
Tourism.
Qualifications offered: Certificates, Higher
Certificates, Diplomas, UNISA B.Ed Degree
(Foundation Phase), Skills Programmes, Learnerships,
Accredited Trade Test Centre.
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OVERVIEW
Business Process Outsourcing
New jobs are coming on line.
SECTOR INSIGHT
Training is a key reason
for the Western Cape’s
attractiveness.
There were 7 500 more people working in the offshore segment
of the business process outsourcing sector (BPO) in the
Western Cape in 2017 than there were just two years earlier.
Altogether, BPO employs more than 50 000 people in
the province, against about 228 000 in South Africa as a whole. This
is according to the Key Indicator Report of Business Process enabling
South Africa (BPeSA), the national organisation with representation in
the nation’s three biggest cities.
Sixty-three percent of the offshore market is in the Western Cape
where the provincial government has identified BPO as one of the six
key sectors that can create jobs quickly.
Western Cape authorities are acting on this by supporting training
programmes. The City of Cape Town, the provincial Department of
Economic Development, Agriculture and Tourism (DEDAT) and IT
service management company EOH jointly sponsor the training and
12-month learnerships of 175 unemployed work-seekers in BPO. The
municipality also trains 20 potential team leaders to build management
skills within the sector.
BPO involves any internal functions that a company chooses to
outsource to a specialist in that field, for example accounting or callcentres
(also known as customer service centres). One interesting
example relates to loading an aeroplane’s freight load – in Frankfurt.
The loader does this in the Western Cape via remote cameras and
weighing machines. After work the loader can visit the beach. UK shop
ONLINE RESOURCES
Business Process enabling South Africa (BPeSA):
www.bpesa.org.za
Contact Centre Management Group: www.ccmg.org.za
National Department of Trade and Industry: www.dti.gov.za
Asda and online retailer Amazon
have large customer service
centres in Cape Town.
The fact that greater Cape
Town is home to three wellregarded
universities, a university
of technology and two technical
colleges is a major advantage
in attracting companies with
sophisticated operations, such
as BPO. A director of a British
business intelligence company,
S-RM, told the Weekend Argus
that Cape Town’s position as a
“knowledge nexus” was a major
factor in deciding to open an
office in the city. Other factors
in favour of Cape Town are the
relatively neutral accents, good
infrastructure (financial and
telecommunications) and the
time zone being the same or
close to Europe’s.
The Department of Trade and
Industry (dti) offers incentives to
BPO investors. A base incentive
is calculated on projected
offshore jobs to be created and
is awarded on actual offshore
jobs created. The incentive has
a two-tier structure of noncomplex
and complex jobs and
is paid over a five-year period.
A bonus incentive becomes
payable at the end of the fiveyear
period.
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ICT
Amazon and Microsoft have chosen Cape Town.
OVERVIEW
SECTOR INSIGHT
The Khayelitsha Bandwidth Barn is
producing innovative thinkers.
Cape Town has the potential to be a world leader
in technology. That is according to Savills, which
identified 22 such cities in its “Tech Cities 2017”
global survey.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will set up a data centre in
Cape Town in 2020 to serve Sub-Saharan Africa. Microsoft
Azure data centres were due to open in Cape Town and
Johannesburg in late 2018 or early 2019. The French
government has officially designated the city as one of six
global French Tech Hubs.
French Tech Labs is a fintech incubator, offering
mentoring for innovators, connections to possible investors
and a chance to travel to France. Barclays Bank has invested
in a fintech incubator in Cape Town, Rise. There are six other
Rise sites around the world, including New York and Mumbai.
Ambitious targets to roll out broadband coverage
across the province have been reached by the Provincial
Government of the Western Cape. More than 1 400 schools
and libraries and about 400 other public facilities have access
to full broadband coverage.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative:
www.citi.org.za
French South African Tech Labs: fsatlabs.co.za
Independent Communications Authority:
www.icasa.org.za
Silicon Cape: www.siliconcape.com
In her State of the Province Address
in 2018, Premier Helen Zille also noted
that 178 WiFi hotspots had been created,
with plans in place to turn the broadband
sites into hotspots. Libraries have been at
the centre of expanding access: 222 rural
libraries with 1 076 computer workstations
offer free Internet access. There are also
70 Cape Access Centres and eight Youth
Cafés where young people can use the
Internet to look for career guidance and
opportunities.
The former MEC for Economic
Development, Agriculture and Tourism
(DEDAT), Alan Winde, will follow Zille as
premier if the DA wins the next election.
As DEDAT MEC, Winde oversaw the
establishment of the I-CAN centre in Elsies
River, a trial run for using a communitybased
approach to teaching digital skills.
It has been hugely successful and DEDAT
is aiming to roll the concept out in other
municipalities such as Agulhas.
ICT has also been front and centre of
initiatives in schools. One example is the
Khayelitsha Bandwidth Barn, a township
tech incubator supported by DEDAT, and
where young people like Zintle Masoko,
winner of a full TedX scholarship, have
a chance to shine. In 2017, Ed-Tech set
up its first business incubator in Africa
in Cape Town.
The Cape Innovation and Technology
Initiative (CiTi, pictured) is another
support system for the ICT sector. There
are 2 000 ICT firms in the Western Cape
and they have 17 000 employees.
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LISTINGS
Western Cape
Provincial Government
An overview of the Western Cape’s provincial government departments.
Office of the Premier
Premier: Ms Helen Zille
Provincial Legislature Building, 1st Floor,
7 Wale Street, Cape Town 8000
Tel: 0860 142 142
Fax: +27 21 483 7216
Email: service@westerncape.gov.za
Web: www.westerncape.gov.za/dept/
department-premier
Department of Agriculture
MEC: Ms Beverley Schafer
Admin Building, Muldersvlei Road, Elsenburg 7607
Tel: +27 21 808 5111 | Fax: +27 21 808 7605
Web: www.elsenburg.com
Department of Community Safety
MEC: Mr Alan Winde
35 Wale Street, Cape Town 8000
Tel: +27 21 483 6949/8588 | Fax: +27 21 483 6591
Web: www.westerncape.gov.za/dept/
community-safety
Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport
MEC: Ms Anroux Marais
Protea House Building, 7th Floor, Greenmarket Square,
Cape Town 8000
Tel: +27 21 483 9503 | Fax: +27 21 483 9504
Web: www.westerncape.gov.za/dept/cas
Department of Economic Development
and Tourism
MEC: Ms Beverley Schafer
11th Floor, NBS Waldorf Building, 80 St George’s Mall,
Cape Town 8001
Tel: +27 21 483 5065 | Fax: +27 21 483 7527
Web: www.westerncape.gov.za/dept/edat
Western Cape Education Department
MEC: Ms Debbie Schäfer
Grand Central Towers, Lower Parliament Street,
Cape Town 8001
Tel: +27 21 467 2000
Fax: +27 21 467 2996
Web: http://wced.school.za
Department of Environmental Affairs
and Development Planning
MEC: Mr Anton Bredell
8th Floor, 1 Dorp Street, Cape Town 8000
Tel: +27 21 483 4091
Fax: +27 21 483 3016
Web: www.westerncape.gov.za/eadp
Department of Health
MEC: Dr Nomafrench Mbombo
21st Floor, 4 Dorp Street, Cape Town 8000
Tel: +27 21 483 3245/5417
Fax: +27 21 483 6169
Web: www.westerncape.gov.za/dept/health
Department of Human Settlements
MEC: Mr Bonginkosi Madikizela
27 Wale Street, Cape Town 8001
Tel: +27 21 483 6488
Fax: +27 21 483 4785
Web: www.westerncape.gov.za/dept/
human-settlements
Department of Local Government
MEC: Mr Anton Bredell
8th Floor, Waldorf Building, 80 St George’s Mall,
Cape Town 8001
Tel: +27 21 483 4049/4997 | Fax: +27 21 483 4493
Web: www.westerncape.gov.za/dept/local-government
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Department of Social Development
MEC: Mr Albert Fritz
Union House, 14 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town 8001
Tel: +27 21 483 5045 | Fax: +27 21 483 4783
Web: www.westerncape.gov.za/dept/
social-development
Department of Transport and Public Works
MEC: Mr Donald Grant
8th Floor, 9 Dorp Street, Cape Town 8000
Tel: +27 21 483 4813
Fax: +27 21 483 5068
Web: www.westerncape.gov.za/dept/tpw
Provincial Treasury
MEC: Dr Ivan Meyer
LISTINGS
3rd Floor, 7 Wale Street, Cape Town 8000
Tel: +27 21 483 4237 | Fax: +27 21 483 3855
Web: www.westerncape.gov.za/dept/treasury
Western Cape Local Government
A guide to the metropolitan, district and local municipalities in the Western Cape.
CITY OF CAPE TOWN
METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY
Address: Civic Centre, Podium Block, 6th Floor, 12 Hertzog
Boulevard, Cape Town 8000
Tel: +27 21 400 1300 | +27 21 400 1313
Fax: 0860 103 090
Website: www.capetown.gov.za
CAPE WINELANDS DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY
Address: 46 Alexander Street, Stellenbosch 7599
Tel: 086 126 8263 | Fax: +27 21 888 5100
Website: www.capewinelands.gov.za
Breede Valley Local Municipality
Tel: +27 23 347 3671 | Fax: +27 21 883 8871
Website: www.bvm.gov.za
Drakenstein Local Municipality
Tel: +27 21 807 4500 | Fax: +27 21 872 8054
Website: www.drakenstein.gov.za
Langeberg Local Municipality
Tel: +27 23 615 8000 | Fax: +27 23 615 1563
Website: www.langeberg.gov.za
Stellenbosch Local Municipality
Tel: +27 21 808 8111 | Fax: +27 21 808 8003
Website: www.stellenbosch.gov.za
Witzenberg Local Municipality
Tel: +27 23 316 1854 | Fax: +27 23 316 1877
Website: www.witzenberg.gov.za
CENTRAL KAROO DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY
Address: 63 Donkin Street, Beaufort West 6970
Tel: +27 23 449 1000 | Fax: +27 23 415 1253
Website: www.skdm.co.za
Beaufort West Local Municipality
Tel: +27 23 414 8100 | Fax: +27 23 414 8105
Website: www.beaufortwestmun.co.za
Laingsburg Local Municipality
Tel: +27 23 551 1019 | Fax: +27 23 551 1019
Website: www.laingsburg.gov.za
Prince Albert Local Municipality
Tel: +27 23 541 1320 | Fax: +27 23 541 1321
Website: www.princealbertmunicipality.com
GARDEN ROUTE DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY
Address: 54 York Street, George 6530
Tel: +27 44 803 1300
Fax: 086 555 6303
Website: www.gardenroute.co.za
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Motorway
Main Road
Railway
Garies
Groen
Kliprand
N7
R27
Loeriesfontein
Nieuwoudtville
R 27
Calvinia
R 27
Brandvlei
R 63
Williston
Carnarvon
R27 Vanrhynsdorp
R63
Vredendal
R27
Fraserburg
Three
Sisters
R 63
Graaff-Reinet
Lambert's Bay
Clanwilliam
Beaufort West
Aberdeen
R27
Sutherland
Cederberg
R 61
N12
N9
St Helena Bay
Citrusdal
Prince
Velddrif
Leeu-Gamka
Paternoster
Albert N1
Vredenburg Piketberg
Road
R44
R79
Saldanha
R45
N7
Klipplaat
Saldanha Bay
Moorreesburg
LangebaanR27
R45
R 44Tulbagh
Laingsburg
Prince Albert
Willowmore
Riebeek West
Matjiesfontein
R 46
Darling
Ceres Touwsrivier
Dassen Island
Calitzdorp
R62
N1
Ladismith
R43
Malmesbury
De Rust
R44
Uniondale
R45
Oudtshoorn
R 62
Paarl
R62
N12
Melkbosstrand
Rawsonville Montagu
Joubertina
N9
R60
Robben Island (World Heritage Site)
R43
Table Bay
Franschhoek Robertson Ashton R62 Barrydale
Kareedouw
Durbanville
George SedgefieldKnysna
N2
Villiersdorp Swellendam
Stormsrivier
Stellenbosch
Riversdale
Somerset
Genadendal
Herolds
Plettenberg
Fish Hoek West Grabouw
Heidelberg
Bay
Bay
N2 Riviersonderend
N2 Mossel Bay
Cape St Francis
Gordon's Bay
Vleesbaai
Simon's Town
Caledon
False R44
Cape Bay Kleinmond Hermanus
Stillbaai
Point
Bredasdorp Cape St Sebastian
R 43
Infanta
Walker Bay
Bay
0
100 km
Gansbaai
Arniston
Struisbaai
0 100 miles
Struisbaai
Quoin Point
Cape
Agulhas
R 63
R63
Loxton
R63
N12
Victoria West
Britstown
N1
De Aar
N10
Hanover
Richmond
LISTINGS
Bitou Local Municipality
Tel: +27 44 501 3000
Fax: +27 44 533 6198
Website: www.plett.gov.za
George Local Municipality
Tel: +27 44 801 9111 | Fax: +27 44 801 9105
Website: www.george.gov.za
Hessequa Local Municipality
Tel: +27 28 713 8000 | Fax: 086 713 3146
Website: www.hessequa.gov.za
Kannaland Local Municipality
Tel: +27 28 551 1023 | Fax: 086 551 1766
Website: www.kannaland.gov.za
Knysna Local Municipality
Tel: +27 44 302 6300 | Fax: +27 44 302 6333
Website: www.knysna.gov.za
Mossel Bay Local Municipality
Tel: +27 44 606 5000 | Fax: +27 44 606 5062
Website: www.mosselbay.gov.za
Oudtshoorn Local Municipality
Tel: +27 44 203 3000 | Fax: +27 44 203 3104
Website: www.oudtshoorn.gov.za
OVERBERG DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY
Address: 26 Long Street, Bredasdorp 7280
Tel: +27 28 425 1157
Fax: +27 28 425 1014
Website: www.odm.org.za
Cape Agulhas Local Municipality
Tel: +27 28 425 5500 | Fax: +27 28 425 1019
Website: www.capeagulhas.gov.za
Overstrand Local Municipality
Tel: +27 28 313 8000
Fax: +27 28 312 1894
Website: www.overstrand.gov.za
WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE
ATLANTIC OCEAN
N
CAPE TOWN
Sout
Wellington Worcester
Swellendam Local Municipality
Tel: +27 28 514 8500
Fax: +27 28 514 2694
Website: www.swellenmun.co.za
Theewaterskloof Local Municipality
Tel: +27 28 214 3300
Fax: +27 28 214 1289
Website: www.twk.org.za
WEST COAST DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY
Address: 58 Long Street, Moorreesburg 7310
Tel: +27 22 433 8400 | Fax: 086 692 6113 (SA only)
Website: www.westcoastdm.co.za
Bergrivier Local Municipality
Tel: +27 22 913 6000 | Fax: +27 22 913 1406
Website: www.bergmun.org.za
Cederberg Local Municipality
Tel: +27 27 482 8000 | Fax: +27 27 482 1933
Website: www.cederbergmun.gov.za
Matzikama Local Municipality
Tel: +27 27 201 3300 | Fax: +27 27 213 3238
Website: www.matzikamamun.co.za
Saldanha Bay Local Municipality
Tel: +27 22 701 7000 | Fax: +27 22 715 1518
Website: www.sbm.gov.za
Swartland Local Municipality
Tankwa
Fish
Breede
Sak
Northern Cape
Tel: +27 22 487 9400 | Fax: +27 22 487 9440
Website: www.swartland.org.za
Riet
Western Cape
Touws
Bu fels
Dwyka
Groot
Gourits
Gamka
Leeuw
Olifants
Groen
Sout
Sout
Kariega
Ongers
Eastern Cape
Kouga
Groot
INDIAN OCEAN
Seekoei
Sundays
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The BMF is a thought leadership organisation founded in
1976, with the main purpose of influencing socio-economic
transformation of our country, in pursuit of socio-economic
justice, fairness and equity.
The organisation stands for the development and
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within organisations and the creation of managerial structures
and processes, which reflect the demographics, and
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INTERVIEW
Cape Winelands
District Municipality
Executive Mayor Alderman (Dr) Helena von Schlicht
outlines some of the unique advantages that make the
Cape Winelands District such an attractive destination for
tourists and for business investment.
Dr Helena von Schlicht
What is the CWDM focus as a District Municipality?
The goal of the Municipality is to deliver on the mandated functions as
specified in the Municipal Systems Act. However, in order to achieve our
vision of a unified district of excellence for sustainable development, the
council’s focus remains firmly in identifying and growing opportunities
for social and economic development. The Cape Winelands District
Municipality (CWDM) fulfills its mandate in a way that enables our
citizens and visitors to travel and eat safely and to enjoy the biodiversity
of the area. We are a highly functional municipality, this is confirmed by
the number of awards we have won. These include four consecutive
clean audits, national accolades for our Municipal Health Services
Division for their role in the prevention of listeriosis in the district as well
as Fire Services for protection of property during the last fire season.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Helena von Schlicht honed
her skills during a 24-year career
in higher education. After earning
her doctorate, she worked as
Head of Department, Social
Work, at the Huguenot College in
Wellington. In this capacity, she
was involved in the writing and
implementation of policies. She
transferred to the political arena
in 2009 and became a member
of the Mayoral Committee in
2011. She has been Executive
Mayor since the election of
September 2016.
How does the organisation address local economic and
social development?
The planning and funding of our projects is determined by our Integrated
Development Plan (IDP). This plan is compiled after consulting with
communities and service organisations. We will not develop economically
if we do not have an efficient, healthy and resilient community. Our selffunded
programmes include projects that support Early Childhood
Development, skills development and sport. Sport development is a
large function of the unit. The Municipality hosts a variety of sports
events, soccer, rugby sevens, dominoes and tug-of-war and even
indigenous games. Other programmes include seed funding for young
entrepreneurs and activities for disabled persons.
Economic development depends on the social health of our citizens,
to ensure success we need to address both issues at the same time.
We want to empower people and enable them to enter the economy,
create jobs, support their families and contribute to the overall
prosperity of society. When someone has a strong and healthy sense
of social cohesion, it’s easier for them to participate in the economy.
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INTERVIEW
The 2018/19 winners included wine
destinations like La Motte, Val du Charron and the
home of the Wellington Park Run, Imbuko Wines.
In the category Service Excellence, @FourCousins
(Robertson), Wolseley’s Big Sky Cottages and the
Cape Dutch Quarter in Tulbagh walked away with
the accolades. The Route 62 Craft Beer Brewery
and Waffle House in Montagu was recognised
for entrepreneurial spirit, while the University
of Stellenbosch Museum received an award for
its role in sustainable development. The South
African Cheese Festival and the Montagu Makietie
were Festival winners.
The Mayor’s Discretionary Award was issued to
the Protea Farm Tractor Rides. This destination offers
a unique experience to visitors, including those in
wheelchairs, by taking a tractor to the top of the
Langeberg, from where, on a good day, one can
see the ocean. After a fun trip down the mountain,
visitors enjoy award-winning ‘potjiekos’ prepared
by 10 local ladies.
How important are the functions of the
various divisions?
The Technical Services Division is responsible
for the maintenance of approximately 3 700km
of rural and gravel roads, while Fire Services,
in partnership with Cape Nature and the Fire
Protection Association, ensures that fauna, flora,
human and animal life and property are protected
from fires. Approximately 1 500 wild or veld fires
are extinguished per fire season.
The division of Municipal Health Services deploys
environmental health practitioners (EHPs) to ensure
that all food and drink suppliers are certified
and comply with regulations at all stages of the
manufacturing process.
What makes the CWDM so special?
The quality of life. We are proud to say that this
is one of the most visited regions for domestic
and international tourists. There is something for
everyone here in the beautiful Cape Winelands.
There are 1 000 things to do... and then some wine!
Tell us about the annual Mayoral Tourism
Awards.
One proven method of developing economic
opportunities is through the tourism industry. To
acknowledge the valuable inputs of the tourism
sector, the CWDM issues a Mayoral Tourism Award
to tourism entities that welcome guests in a way
that keeps them returning.
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INDEX
INDEX
Accelerate Cape Town.....................................................................................................................................................................................34
Africa Biomass Company............................................................................................................................................................................57-59
Black Management Forum (BMF)................................................................................................................................................................117
Breede-Gouritz Catchment Management Agency (BOCMA).........................................................................................................93
Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry.................................................................................................................................. 4, 32, 38
Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) ........................................................................................................................ 52
Cape Town Stadium.................................................................................................................................................................................. 26-29
Cape Winelands District Municipality...................................................................................................................................................2, 118
College of Cape Town................................................................................................................................................................................7, 110
False Bay TVET College................................................................................................................................................................................44, 108
Global Africa Network.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Invest Cape Town...................................................................................................................................................................................................22
Maritz Electrical..............................................................................................................................................................................................50, 98
Nedbank.........................................................................................................................................................................................................62-67
Petroleum Agency​South Africa..................................................................................................................................................................... 89
SA Airlink ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Selfmed ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11, OBC
South Africa Table Grape Industry (SATI).............................................................................................................................................82
Superfecta Trading.......................................................................................................................................................................................60, 86
Vinpro ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 81
Vodacom...................................................................................................................................................................................................68-73, IBC
Wesgro................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
Western Cape Business Opportunities Forum (WECBOF)......................................................................................................... 36
Western Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism....................................................................20, 30, 106
West Coast District Municipality.............................................................................................................................................................IFC
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