{pp}“Dreaming about our past is easy, rebuilding our future takes imagination” (Author Unknown)

17 km south-east of Citrusdal, surrounded by the Koue Bokkeveld Mountains on the road to Ceres lies Elandskloof, a once thriving community of self sustaining farmers, who became victims of the Apartheid Government’s land dispossession in 1961.

More than 70 families were affected by this land dispossession. Soon after the dawn of the new democracy, in 1996, the land was returned to its previous inhabitants under the new land restitution programme.

{pp}Bandwidth Barn tenants are landing contracts with big corporates due to their innovative technology.

{pp}March 15 marks the 26th World Consumer Rights Day promoted by Consumers International. This is an independent and authoritative global voice for consumers with over 220 member organisations in 115 countries.

South Africa has two member organisations namely the Office of Consumer Protection, Department of Trade and Industry and the National Consumer Forum (NCF).

{pp} Cape Town, 11 March 2008 – ACET Processing (ACET) has successfully consolidated the upgrade of their processing platform to Version 8.23 of VisionPLUS®.

{pp}With the growth of the Internet and subsequent growth in doing business via the Internet, domain names are becoming increasingly important for the business- and trademark owner.

{pp}Invitation to attend the “Turkish-African Foreign Trade Bridge-3 Event 13-17 May 2008.

The Confederation of Business and Industrialists of Turkiye ( TUSKON) is once again organising the 3rd Turkiye- African Foreign Trade Bridge in Instanbul.

TUSKON has requested the Turkish/South African Business Council to identify business people interested to attend the event.

The African Summit in 2006 was TUSKON’s first event and was very successful. In 2007 more than 60 ministers and government officials as well as 500 business people from 31 African States including South Africa, attended. They met and networked with approximately 1500 Turkish entrepreneurs in bi-lateral meetings. Approximately 20 000 meetings took place and business to the amount of US$200 million were realized, laying the foundation for a long term trade volume of US$2 billion. Tours organized after the event strengthened the relations. Turkish business engaged in investment projects and established joint ventures or registered individual companies in countries like Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Nigeria.

 

{pp}Cape Town based company, Combustion Technology, has been awarded a multi-million Rand tender to upgrade the coal fired boiler house at the Johannesburg Hospital in Gauteng.

This follows their Pioneering leadership in their field of expertise, which started with the Coal Conversion to Sasol Natural Gas in 2003.

{pp} PIC Solutions, the leading specialist credit risk solutions company in the EMEA region, has formed an alliance with Transform Media to provide Boomerang, an innovative communications tool, to its South African clients.

{pp}PIC Solutions, the leading specialist credit risk management consultancy in the Africa Middle East region, will present at the 4th Biennial Micro Finance South Africa Summit.

Hosted by Trade Conferences International (TCI), more than 150 people - all role players in the micro finance industry in South Africa - are expected to attend this Summit.

This round of the biennial Summit is to be held 19-20 March this year at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways, Johannesburg.

{pp}A South African Corporate Social Investment (CSI) consultancy has published a practical ‘how-to’ guide on investing CSI funds effectively.