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KwaZulu-Natal Top Business Portfolio The KwaZulu-Natal Top Business Portfolio website is a portal to KwaZulu-Natal, its top businesses, organizations, municipalities and government departments. The website includes a profile of the Province, an insight into successful governance and the economy, highlights current investment possibilities in the province and provides regular news updates. KwaZulu-Natal offers you great opportunities for growth, expansion, trade and investment.
Markets
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The Johannesburg Stock Exchange index extended declines for a second day, falling 0.2%, amid weakness in BHP and Anglo American as fellow benchmark heavyweights Naspers and Richemont dropped. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 European stock markets were narrowly mixed at the start of trading on Wednesday, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index down 0.2 percent at 6,640.18 points. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Hong Kong stocks ended Wednesday in the red, extending the previous day's steep losses, as investors track US stimulus developments while looking forward to the Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the day. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Tokyo stocks ended higher Wednesday with bargain-hunters moving in as Japan's corporate earnings season kicked off. view more
Tuesday 26th January 2021 Asian markets sank on Tuesday following the previous day's healthy run-up, with sentiment jolted by the prospect that Joe Biden's huge stimulus could be watered down and not even be passed for several weeks. view more
Standard Bank KZN Top Business Awards
Monday 24th February 2020 PROMOTING KZN, ITS BUSINESSES AND PEOPLE - Standard Bank KZN Top Business... view more
Tuesday 9th July 2019 KZN TOP BUSINESS PERSONALITY AWARD
The prestigious Stan... view more
Tuesday 9th July 2019 BATTLE OF THE BRANDS
KwaZulu-Natal is home to many well... view more
Tuesday 9th July 2019 MANUFACTURING AWARD
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Tuesday 9th July 2019 TRANSPORT STORAGE AND COMMUNICATION AWARD
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Tuesday 9th July 2019 THE WINNER IS ...Supertech Group
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Tuesday 9th July 2019 FINANCIAL AWARD
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KZN Leaders
Saturday 26th January 2019 KZN LEADERS PORTFOLIO is a natural progression from the KZN Top Business Portfol... view more
Friday 5th October 2018 Neville Matjie has been appointed CEO of Trade and Investment KZN, effective Oct... view more
Sunday 6th May 2018 Saskia Hill, owner of MCS Debt Recovery, says that the success of her bus... view more
Monday 26th March 2018 PAUL SAAD, FutureLife's CEO said, "I am humbled that FutureLife is now recognise... view more
Sunday 25th March 2018 Carol Coetzee, (CEO of the KZN Film Commiss... view more
Sunday 25th March 2018 BRYAN BAYLIS, has had a long and satisfying professional career in the financial... view more
Sunday 25th March 2018 ABDOOL KADER (BABOO) ESSA joined his father, Haroon Essa, at Frimax Foods, strai... view more
Sunday 25th March 2018 DOMINIC COLLETT is a professional engineer whose career has been driven by the d... view more
Sunday 25th March 2018 ARNOLD VERMAAK, the chairman of Durban based Constantia Afripack lives by the Ma... view more
Sunday 25th March 2018 ANANT SINGH, CEO and chairman of the Videovision Entertainment Group, and South ... view more
Top Stories News 24
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced that the flight carrying the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines will arrive at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport on Monday, 1 February. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 While still working for the Kwazulu-Natal Department of Social Development, Thulani Dlomo - who would later become a spy boss - trained 48 non-SSA members with the purpose of establishing a parallel intelligence and protection unit for Jacob Zuma. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Stay up to date with the latest news, views and analysis as the number of coronavirus cases in SA increases. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Western Cape wine producers are sitting on 289 million litres of wine they weren't able to sell because of lockdown regulations, according to the province. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Angry Eastern Cape villagers, fed up of "unreliable" and "useless" policing, stormed their local police station and locked up six officers. view more
Thursday 28th January 2021 Former British and Irish Lions captain Alun Wyn Jones said on Tuesday no fans during this year's South Africa tour would be a "travesty." view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Treasury Director-General Dondo Mogajane says a combination of taxes, borrowing, reprioritisation of expenditure, or monies from the National Revenue Fund could fund vaccines. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 With the first batch of vaccines hoped to prevent further transmission of Covid-19 due soon, the Western Cape is aiming to start vaccinations by the middle of February. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Former Lions flank Ruan Ackermann has extended his stay with English side Gloucester, the club confirmed on Wednesday. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who currently chairs the African Union (AU), has been leading efforts to secure sufficient vaccine doses for Africa's 1.3 billion people. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Six minors, who cannot be identified, and two adults, Alfred Mothapo and Chuene Maleka, are on trial before Judge Violet Semenya. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 A suspected thief has been caught out after unknowingly trying to sell goods to their rightful owner. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Heavy rain is expected in several provinces on Thursday, including Gauteng and Mpumalanga, the South African Weather Service forecasts. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Vodafone Group is considering options for its Ghana business as the British telecommunications giant focuses on reorganising and paying down debt. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Zlatan Ibrahimovic spoke out against racism on Wednesday after a heated exchange with former Manchester United teammate Romelu Lukaku. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Sharks/Bulls play-off encounters have never been pretty, but always full of drama, writes Khanyiso Tshwaku. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The man who played an essential role in providing evidence to convict axe murderer, Henri van Breda, and child killer, Mortimer Saunders, has died following a battle with Covid-19. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Medical students doing clinical studies are likely to be one of the first groups of people to be inoculated when the government rolls out the Covid-19 vaccination. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) has welcomed the Health Ombudsman's report into the death of Shonisani Lethole at Tembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Kataza the baboon is adapting well to his new home at the Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Limpopo after he was relocated from the Cape Peninsula. view more
Engineering News
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Industry body Vinpro has approached the Cape High Court in efforts to secure urgent interim relief for the wine industry amid the third ban on alcohol sales in the last ten months.
The organisation says that, following a hearing that is set down for February 5, the court could afford permission to Western Cape Premier Alan Winde to adopt deviations to enable off- and on-consumption sale of liquor in the province. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 A new global partnership has been formally launched in an effort to accelerate the decarbonisation of seven heavy industrial and transport sectors that together represent 30% of global greenhouse-gas emissions and where carbon-abatement pathways have yet to be defined. Known as the 'Mission Possible Partnership' it will focus specifically on the transportation sectors of aviation, shipping and trucking, as well as the aluminium, cement, chemicals and steel industries. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Emerging helium and natural gas company Renergen has appointed three companies for the engineering studies for Phase 2 of its Virginia gas project, in South Africa's Free State province. The three companies are Saipem South Africa, EPCM Holdings and Sproule. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Construction company Aveng intends to raise R300-million by way of a fully co-underwritten renounceable rights offer so that it may restructure its balance sheet, which will allow the group to reset its capital structure. The rights offer comprises up to 20-billion ordinary no par value shares in Aveng and as many class A shares that may be required to be issued to the underwriters to ensure the minima of the rights offer as required by the underwriters is attained. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The Department of Tourism has launched the R1.2-billion Tourism Equity Fund (TEF), aimed at driving transformation in the tourism sector.
The fund has been established in partnership with the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (Sefa) as a new financial support mechanism to stimulate investment and transformation in the tourism sector. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Administrators at national airline South African Airways (SAA) received R1.3-billion from the Department of Public Enterprises last week, a spokesperson for the administrators said on Wednesday. The money would be used to pay accepted and signed voluntary severance packages, employees who accepted a three-month back pay deal, and post-commencement creditors, spokesperson Louise Brugman said. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 South African private sector airline Airlink has announced that it will resume scheduled flights to Skukuza Airport, in the Kruger National Park, from Thursday (January 28). The airport had been temporarily shut down on January 14 because of a localised outbreak of Covid-19 at a nearby location. Throughout the Skukuza shutdown, Airlink continued to operate services to Nelspruit's Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport and to Hoedspruit Airport. These are the two closest alternative airports to the Kruger National Park and the adjacent reserves, bushcamps and resorts. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The water levels of the dams within the Integrated Vaal River System (IVRS) are at steady levels this week as persistent wet weather conditions replenish the system. The average water level of the system, which comprises 14 dams, is at 78.1% this week, an increase from 76.6% last week and 64.5% at the same time in the preceding year. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The latest Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions report reveals that open and virtualised radio access networks (RANs) are accelerating, the 8k television (TV) wave will expand and fifth-generation (5G) myths are being debunked. The twentieth yearly edition of the TMT Predictions report further highlights how many trends are being driven by the global Covid-19 pandemic's economic and societal impacts, resulting in intensifying growth in video, virtual and cloud technologies, as well as in media segments such as sports. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The 2020 fourth-quarter First National Bank (FNB) Commercial Property Broker Survey saw all three major commercial property sectors, that is, office, industrial and retail, showing slight increases in perceived market activity levels, with the office property market's activity remaining the weakest and industrial the strongest. The survey includes input from a sample of commercial property brokers in and around the six major metros of South Africa, namely the City of Joburg and Ekurhuleni (Greater Johannesburg), Tshwane, eThekwini, the City of Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay. view more
KZN Business Sense
Saturday 14th November 2020 The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry welcomes this opportunity to support... view more
Saturday 14th November 2020 Premier of KwaZulu-Natal Sihle Zikalala welcomed Honorary Consul General of Indo... view more
Saturday 14th November 2020 The eThekwini Economic Council is a milestone in the City's journey towards a ... view more
Friday 13th November 2020 The idea of revolutionising township and rural businesses, through the digitizat... view more
Friday 13th November 2020 Mthoko Mbatha was the Group CEO of SLG (Pty) Ltd, the second largest trading com... view more
Friday 13th November 2020 In order to bring change into business, capital investment projects are continuo... view more
Friday 13th November 2020 Many companies have limped their way through lockdown and have survived by cutti... view more
Friday 13th November 2020 The Corporate and Natural Resources team comprises a commercial team of lawyers ... view more
Friday 13th November 2020 Four years since announcing the revolutionary concept of Umhlanga Arch, this dev... view more
Friday 13th November 2020 Well it certainly seems likely, at the last discussion at the World Economic For... view more
Durban Chamber news
Friday 28th June 2019 At the Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry's recent Annual General Meeting... view more
Tuesday 27th November 2018 The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in partnership with Transnet Port T... view more
Monday 26th November 2018 The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry has held an Annual Gala Dinner to co... view more
Wednesday 21st November 2018
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KZN News
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The IMF says, without reforms, Eskom's problems will continue to weigh down public finances, and constrain growth prospects. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 YouTube has suspended Donald Trump indefinitely from the platform and said it will also prevent the former president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani from being able to monetise his clips, US media reported. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Vodafone Group is considering options for its Ghana business as the British telecommunications giant focuses on reorganising and paying down debt. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 As pressure from alcohol and tobacco groups to lift the ban on trade intensifies, Ann Bernstein called for meaningful consultation between government and business. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The FSCA said entities calling themselves Stanlib Focused Investments and PSG Fund Investment were using names of the country's big asset managers without their knowledge. view more
Business NEWS24
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The IMF says, without reforms, Eskom's problems will continue to weigh down public finances, and constrain growth prospects. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 YouTube has suspended Donald Trump indefinitely from the platform and said it will also prevent the former president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani from being able to monetise his clips, US media reported. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Vodafone Group is considering options for its Ghana business as the British telecommunications giant focuses on reorganising and paying down debt. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 As pressure from alcohol and tobacco groups to lift the ban on trade intensifies, Ann Bernstein called for meaningful consultation between government and business. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The FSCA said entities calling themselves Stanlib Focused Investments and PSG Fund Investment were using names of the country's big asset managers without their knowledge. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Treasury Director-General Dondo Mogajane says a combination of taxes, borrowing, reprioritisation of expenditure, or monies from the National Revenue Fund could fund vaccines. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The wine producers body Vinpro is set to challenge the current lockdown ban on alcohol sales in court. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Naspers is looking at ways to reduce its dominance of Johannesburg's stock exchange, an issue that is hampering efforts to narrow a widening valuation gap between the company and its stake in Tencent Holdings. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The Johannesburg Stock Exchange index extended declines for a second day, falling 0.2%, amid weakness in BHP and Anglo American as fellow benchmark heavyweights Naspers and Richemont dropped. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Earlier in the week Steinhoff announced that it was reviving plans to list its European discount retail subsidiary the Pepco Group. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The commitment follows a meeting was aimed at ending a deadlock over retrenchments at the broadcaster, in a process that is said to affect 303 positions. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Much like its private hospital peers, Life Healthcare had a tough run during the first part of the pandemic as patients postponed non-emergency surgeries view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 For Branko Brkic, editor-in-chief of the Daily Maverick, her conduct was a "gut punch, a betrayal of the worst kind". view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Tokyo stocks ended higher Wednesday with bargain-hunters moving in as Japan's corporate earnings season kicked off. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The total take-home pay reflected in the BankservAfrica Take-home Pay Index for December, does not yet reflect the reality of the overall employment situation. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Hong Kong stocks ended Wednesday in the red, extending the previous day's steep losses, as investors track US stimulus developments while looking forward to the Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the day. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 European stock markets were narrowly mixed at the start of trading on Wednesday, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index down 0.2 percent at 6,640.18 points. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Fin24 is introducing a series titled "Recasting the SA economy" that will focus on stories, columns and podcasts about recasting an economy, disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, for greater and importantly more shared growth in decades to come. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 A Fin24 reader in his mid twenties wants to know the best investment or savings option to ensure a comfortable retirement. view more
Wednesday 27th January 2021 The surge of remote working during Covid lockdowns has highlighted the importance of being able to digitally disconnect once you've done your hours. view more
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