Feb 2, 2017 | EC Industrial & Business News
The awarding of a water licence to an Eastern Cape citrus company is set to unlock the transformation of 700 hectares of bush in the Sundays River Valley into a thriving collective farm, kick-starting a R300-million black economic empowerment project. The Ikamva Lethu...
Feb 2, 2017 | EC Industrial & Business News
The Port of Ngqura is poised to play a vital role in ensuring the security of South Africa’s fuel supply, while creating a new petroleum trading hub for Southern Africa in anticipation of the relocation of existing liquid bulk facilities from Port Elizabeth. This...
Feb 2, 2017 | EC Industrial & Business News
The Volkswagen Group presented its annual “Best Trainee Awards 2016” to young top achievers from all over the world at Group headquarters in Wolfsburg recently. The awards went to 45 trainees from 19 countries. The 45 winners, made up of nine young women and 36 young...
Nov 21, 2016 | EC Industrial & Business News
The South African National Roads Agency SOC Ltd (SANRAL) project manager Thabiso Ngozwana and communications and marketing manager Michelle Ah Shene announced the completion of the 28km dual carriageway section of the N2, Section 11, from Bramlin Interchange to Coega...
Nov 21, 2016 | EC Industrial & Business News
Renttech South Africa, a leader in the sales and rental of top quality welding, lifting, rigging and construction equipment, has moved its Port Elizabeth branch into a new, spacious, state-of-the-art sales outlet. The move is in line with Renttech South Africa’s...
Nov 21, 2016 | EC Industrial & Business News
Coega Development Corporation was awarded as a Top Performing Public Service at the 14th annual National Business Awards recently at the Emperors Palace in Johannesburg. The awards recognized those demonstrating the greatest impact on quality of life, economic...
Sep 26, 2016 | EC Industrial & Business News
The challenge to find work remains the biggest obstacle to sustained growth for the South African building industry, and it is to be hoped that the new municipal leaders will find a way to expedite long overdue infrastructural projects, says Norman Seymore (pictured),...
Sep 26, 2016 | EC Industrial & Business News
Dr Lesley Lee, Head,VWSA Learning Academy with corporate trainee, Nelisa Winti According to statistics, of South Africa’s five million unemployed people, 3.5million are under 35. 175 000 of those are graduates. It is in light of these alarming figures that...
Sep 26, 2016 | EC Industrial & Business News
You would think that if an employee is found to be under the influence of alcohol at work it is a straightforward dismissible offence. But, warn labour law experts, Hugo Pienaar and Elizabeth Sonnekus, recent case law has shown that this is not necessarily so....
