InvestSA is a division of the South African Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), providing a One-Stop-Shop service to investors. It provides investment promotion, facilitation and aftercare, which is geared at fast-tracking projects and reducing government red-tape.
Agriculture
Agriculture in KwaZulu-Natal is extremely diverse and is reflected in the patterns of its topography. Most of the world's agricultural activities can be practised here. Due to the good reliable rainfall and fertile soils, the region's agricultural sector has become very productive, and is known for its specialist capability in several types of farming.
Business Services
South Africa's financial services sector, backed by a sound regulatory and legal framework, is sophisticated, boasting dozens of domestic and foreign institutions providing a full range of services – commercial, retail and merchant banking, mortgage lending, insurance and investment.
Chemicals and Plastics
KwaZulu-Natal provides nearly a third of the country's plastics requirements. This industry, which uses 150 000 tons of polymer a year, consists of mainly small and medium size companies. The most challenging concern presently experienced by the plastics industry in South Africa is the cost of raw materials linked to the crude-oil price, which has risen dramatically and quickly in the last several years. However, plastics still remain cost-effective products, as the industry has managed to engineer its way around the escalating price. KwaZulu-Natal provides nearly a third of the country's plastics requirements. This industry, which uses 150 000 tons of polymer a year, consists of mainly small and medium size companies. The most challenging concern presently experienced by the plastics industry in South Africa is the cost of raw materials linked to the crude-oil price, which has risen dramatically and quickly in the last several years. However, plastics still remain cost-effective products, as the industry has managed to engineer its way around the escalating price.
Clothing, Textile, Leather and Footwear
The SA clothing and textile industry have suffered massive erosion due to increased importation of these items into the country, KwaZulu-Natal being one of the hardest-hit by this development. Nonetheless, the province has unsurpassed skill in this area/activity and presents massive opportunities for investments in the sector. Some pockets of the domestic activity in this industry are still doing exceptionally well with local designers increasingly invited to design and develop attire for top-end activities/persons. There are a few very large manufacturers, but the majority of clothing manufacturers fall into the medium sized category (50 to 200 employees) and there are approximately 400 SMME concerns, which fulfill the role of sub-contractors to the rest of the industry. This latter group also supplies the informal sector, which is growing rapidly.
Community, Social and Personal Services
Social development and improved economic performance depend on gains in public sector delivery, restructuring of state enterprises and more vigorous capital formation. Apart from shaking effects of the 2008/09 Global Economic slowdown, South Africa has achieved a level of macro-economic stability not seen in the country for many years. Such advances create opportunities for real increases in expenditure on social services, and reduce the costs and risks for all investors, laying the foundation for increased investment and growth. Other sub-sectors that have a potential for development include the education and training services, which has to be strategic in nature. South Africa has to focus and provide resources for training people in those areas of need, side by side with general education. The country requires skilled people - engineers, accountants, actuaries, scientists, teachers, medical staff, as well as farmers, who are all essential for growth.
Energy and Water
Globally, the case for the Green Economy has being made abundantly clear. Renewable energy is the only electricity generation technology whose price has decreased dramatically: solar PV module prices have fallen by 80% over the last five years while wind turbines have become 30% less expensive. South Africa’s wind resource is regarded as amongst the top 5 in the world and could sustain 25% of our grid’s capacity.
Health Services
South Africa’s health care spending is estimated to be around R39 billion dollars. The health care system consists of a large underfunded and understaffed public sector which supports 80% of the population and the small private sector financed by medical aid. The bulk of the health care expenditure emanates from the public sector with a spending of 50% of total spending.
Manufacturing
Logistics refers to the international flows of goods and concomitant payment wherein costs are constantly reduced through the simplification of procedures and documentation. It links demand with supply from different industries and generates a significant proportion of a country’s Gross Domestic Product. The global logistics industry comprises shipping, warehousing, courier, road, rail and air freight and its global market value of logistics $4 trillion equates to 10% of global GDP.
Mining and Beneficiation
Mining contributes around 6.5% of South Africa's GDP and is the country's largest single private employer (500 000 people), with small-scale mining operations making a significant contribution to job creation. Mintek has done a research report on Minerals in KwaZulu-Natal. Click here to download the report from the sector brochures category. Ilmenite, rutile and zircon are mined on a large scale for their titanium and zirconium contents from aeolian beach dunes in the northern areas of KwaZulu-Natal. Large ore reserves are held by Richards Bay Minerals, a leading producer of the heavy minerals, which mines the 17 km stretch of land along a 2 km strip of coastline north of Richards Bay (the City of uMhlathuze). Richards Bay Minerals meets about a quarter of the world's demands for these products, generating billions of rands in foreign currency. The region is rich in other minerals such as aluminium, anthracite and calcitic marbles. Ticor South Africa, launched in 2001, is also situated in the Richards Bay/ Empangeni area and represents an investment of R3 billion in the production of titanium slag.
Tourism and Property Development
For the last few years the Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) property market has enjoyed almost unparalleled growth repeatedly outperforming other provinces as an investment destination. The reasons are clear, the Province for some time had lacked a variety of factors necessary to maximize growth. For one there was a lack of national and international marketing focus on the Province, reasons given are varied.
Ship and Building Repairs
The ship repair, ship building and boat building industries have a long and proud history in Durban, having added immeasurably to its value and appeal as Africa's leading port by providing ship owners and operators as well as the recreational and commercial boat fraternity with the knowledge and assurance that skills, expertise and availability are readily to hand. All three industry sectors have made great strides and significant investments in the local economy. They remain in the forefront of technical knowhow and skills development equal to the best available worldwide in their respective fields. . KwaZulu-Natal is already regarded as the second most prolific boat-building centre in South Africa so it’s no surprise that this sector is rapidly emerging as a significant growth industry with 25% of all South African boat-building companies based in this province. Currently the local ship and boat-building industry boasts good basic infrastructure, while tremendous possibilities exist around the Durban shoreline for the construction of ships, boats and maritime parts.
Tourism
The Tourism industry is a key contributor to the KwaZulu-Natal economy. The province's tourism attractions, perhaps less well known internationally, surpass the national norm in many respects and are structured around four components, the coastal holiday areas with their magnificent beaches, sunshine, boating, surfing and fishing; the wildlife game parks in the north; the Drakensberg Mountains and the historical battlefields. Two World heritage sites have been declared recently: the Greater Lucia Wetlands Park, and Ukhahlamba/Drakensberg Mountain Reserve. Both offer interesting opportunities for investors and especially for small businesses. The attractiveness lies in the unique combination of bio-diversity, impressive scenery, all-year climate and its rich mosaic of exciting cultures and history. Its competitive advantage is that it has a monarchy that can be used to support tourism development. Zulu cultural village activity and the African township experience have emerged strongly as new areas of interest that needs to be marketed.
Transport, Storage and Communication
Logistics and supply chain management is growing in importance and it is fast becoming the central function in companies. Boasting Southern Africa's busiest sea port (Durban) and Africa's biggest bulk sea port (Richards Bay), combined with excellent road and rail infrastructure and global logistics service providers, it is easy to see why KwaZulu-Natal lays claim to being southern Africa's Trade Gateway. With the increase in activity at the Durban and Richards Bay harbours it is possible that the industry will continue to experience high growth rates. The number of vessel moves and the gross tonnage of these vessels, at the Durban harbour for example, have increased by 4.2% and 4.6% per month from January 2003 to June 2005, respectively. During the economically challenging 2008, the number of vessels experienced a slight decline of -4.3%, while the GT had an increase of 4.4% respectively. However the port held the fort in handling not less than 21 million TEUs in 2009/2010. The transport, storage and communication industry's contribution to the economy of KwaZulu-Natal has stayed fairly constant at around 12% per annum from 1995 to 2007. The industry has achieved consistently high growth rates of around 5.6% per annum from 1995 to 2007. Even after the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ heydays,the sector is still going strong.
Wholesale, Retail Trade, Household Goods, Hotels and Restaurants
KwaZulu-Natal offers a range of shopping experiences from mega-malls such as Gateway to rural micro markets. The ongoing construction of new shopping malls and the expansion of existing ones across the Province, gives evidence to the fact that the retail trade is booming. The malls are home to major shopping chains such as Woolworths and Edgars, to shops selling a range of goods from household necessities to electronics, clothing, jewellery, and more specialized items. The increasing middle class is also contributing to the surge in consumerism. Even in many of the smaller towns there are taverns, clothing stores, car-repair shops, cafes, stores selling household goods, and many cell phone kiosks from which people can place calls. Brands are growing and access to new markets is occurring on an incremental basis. Branded chains such as Engen, Standard Bank, FNB, KFC, Woolworths, Shoprite are found across the main economic centres of the province, such as Durban, Richards Bay, Newcastle, Pietermaritzburg, Ladysmith. Small towns and communities are benefiting from projects which allow them to produce and sell arts and crafts. This is of particular relevance to the upliftment of women who often have few skills and little opportunity to find employment.
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Basics of Privacy
What is Personal Information Personal Information is information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person, and where it is applicable, an identifiable, existing juristic person, including, but not limited to:
Biographical Information:
race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and DOB;
Status Information:
Information relating to the education or the medical, financial, criminal or employment history of the person;
Pointer Information:
Identifying number, symbol, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, location information, online identifier or other particular assignments to the person
Biometric Information:
The biometric information of the person; Examples: facial recognition; fingerprints; finger geometry; iris recognition; vein recognition; retina scanning; voice recognition; DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) matching.
Opinion of Data Subject:
The personal opinions, views or preferences
Confidential Correspondence:
Correspondence sent by the person of a confidential nature or further correspondence that would reveal the contents of the original correspondence
Opinion about Data Subject:
The views or opinions of another individual about the person;
Meta Information:
The name of the person if it appears with other Personal Information relating to the person or if the disclosure of the name itself would reveal Information about the person
What is Processing? Any operation concerning Personal Information, including:
Who is the Data Subject? You, as the owner of the Personal Information being processed, are the Data Subject
Who is the Responsible Party? A Responsible Party is either a public or private body or any other person which, alone or in conjunction with others, determines the purpose of and means for processing Personal Information; We at Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal are a public body in terms of Schedule 3C of the Public Finance Management Act No 1 of 1999, and we determine the purpose for the personal Information requested from you; therefore, we are a Responsible Party as defined by the Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 of 2013
Who is the Information Regulator? The Information Regulator is the body that aims to promote the protection of Personal Information processed by public bodies like TIKZN by introducing certain conditions for the lawful processing of Personal Information to establish minimum requirements for the processing of such Information.
The Information Regulator is empowered to monitor and enforce compliance by public and private bodies with the provisions of the POPIA Act.
Website: https://www.justice.gov.za/inforeg/index.html
Purpose The purpose of this Notice is to confirm Trade & Investment Kwa-Zulu Natal’s (TIKZN) commitment to ensure your Personal Information is handled in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA).
The Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 of 2013 (POPIA) states that Personal Information must be:
If you have any questions about this Notice or how we collect and use Personal Information about you, please contact us at: compliance@tikzn.co.za.
How and Why Does TIKZN collect your Information? During the execution of our events and services, TIKZN will require you to complete our contact enquiry forms in which we will collect Personal Information directly from you, including your name, contact details such as e-mail addresses and cell phone numbers, your Identity number, and any other information required for utilising the service of TIKZN.
TIKZN will retain Personal Information obtained from electronic or physical forms of communication from you, including e-mails, telephonic calls, SMS’s, social media, and instant messaging. TIKZN will receive Information about you via governmental departments and agencies for marketing events, shows, and exhibitions from time to time. This is detailed further below.
We use your Personal Information received from you to provide you with our services and inform you of other related TIKZN services, shows, exhibitions, and engagements that may be suitable for your needs. You may ask us to stop sending you marketing information about TIKZN services, shows, exhibitions, and engagements at any time by calling or sending an e-mail to compliance@tikzn.co.za.
Services Providers of TIKZN When you apply to provide TIKZN with your services, we collect your Personal Information directly from you. We will process your information as populated on the Central Supplier Database (CSD) to ensure compliance with tenders rules and expectation of TIKZN.
Website We may collect Information about you from our website via technical means such as cookies, webpage counters and other analytics tools. We use this Information to manage, report, and ensure our website operates effectively and securely.
From time to time, our website may contain links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy measures. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
Our website contains contact forms where you provide your Personal information in order to download content or raise queries with us. We keep this data in our web database for a limited period.
Cookies We collect certain Information automatically by using cookies when you visit our website. This Information includes your device operating system, access times, location and use of the website. We use this Information to improve the way our website functions to provide a better service. You can manage your cookies settings through your web browser. Please view our Cookie Notice
Third Parties We may receive Information about you from the following sources: Our service providers: We work closely with third parties (including marketing firms) who may provide us with Information about you to be used as set out above. Our other channels: This is Information we receive about you if you use the TIKZN website, other TIKZN departments or services. In this case, we will inform you when we are collecting the Personal Information if we intend to process that information collected. If you have filled in an online survey for our benefit, we may keep this data for statistical purposes. We ensure that any disclosure of your Information is done so in accordance with POPIA.
Information Security We have sufficient measures in place to provide for appropriate internal security measures to prevent your Personal Information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way or from being altered or disclosed. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breaches and will notify you, together with the Regulator, of a suspected breach where necessary. If you suspect a security breach, please let us know immediately by sending an e-mail to compliance@tikzn.co.za.
How Long Do We Keep Your Information For? We keep your Information for up to 5 years upon completing the purpose for which it was collected or as required legal obligation. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your Personal Information, the purposes for which we process your Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means. In some circumstances, we may anonymise your Personal Information to no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such Information without further Notice to you.
Marketing We may collect your name and contact details (such as your e-mail address, phone number or address) to send you Information about our products and services that might interest you. We may collect this directly from you or through a third party. You always have the right to “opt-out” of receiving our marketing. You can exercise the right at any time by contacting us at compliance@tikzn.co.za. If we send you any marketing e-mails, we will provide an unsubscribe option to opt-out of any further marketing e-mails. We will not share your name or contact details with third parties for marketing purposes unless we receive your consent. We retain your details on our marketing list until you “opt-out”, at which point we take your details off our contract list and database. We keep that suppression list indefinitely to comply with our legal obligations to ensure we do not accidentally send you any more marketing.
Data Subject Participation request TIKZN provides for the right for data subjects to view their Personal Information, and request copies of the data. The Data subject requests must be made in writing. Verbal requests for correction, deletion or destruction of the Information held about an individual are not a valid request. If a formal request is made verbally to a staff member of the TIKZN, a written request must be requested. A request can be made via any of the following methods: e-mail to compliance@tikzn.co.za or at TIKZN offices. TIKZN will not provide Personal Information via social media channels.
Your Rights POPIA gives you a number of rights when it comes to the Personal Information we hold about you. The fundamental rights are set out below. Under certain circumstances, by law, you have the right to:
We will respond to your request as soon as reasonably possible, but this process may take up to 21 days, depending on the complexity of the request. We require you to submit a written POPIA Complaint Form to the Information Officer via compliance@tikzn.co.za. Upon completion of an investigation of the complaint, the Information Officer will either:
In some instances, we may need proof of your identity, and sometimes we may have additional requirements before we can update your Information. Should you as the data subject not be satisfied with the outcomes of the Information Officer’s conclusion, you do have the right to complain to the Information Regulator.
Managing Cookies The purpose of this Notice is to describe what cookies are, what Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal (TIKZN) uses them for, and how you can manage them during your visit to the TIKZN website.
What are cookies? The TIKZN website, in some cases, may place small text files called ‘cookies’ on your device when you visit the TIKZN website. These files do not contain personal data, but they have a unique identifier for associating your personal information with a certain device. Many websites use cookies, and you can find out more about them at All About Cookies.
Why do we use cookies? These files serve several functional purposes, which include:
The types of cookies we use We use the following types of cookies on our website:
Deleting cookies Cookies can be deleted from your device at different times, such as when you leave the website or after a pre-set amount of time, or they may persist on your device until you delete them. Your internet browser generally accepts cookies automatically, but you can often change this setting to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies manually. How to delete cookies Deleting or no longer accepting cookies may prevent you from accessing certain aspects of the TIKZN website where cookies are necessary or because the website forgot your preferences.
Updates to this Notice We may occasionally make changes to this Notice. When we make material changes to this Notice, we will provide you with a prominent notice on our website or send you an email. We may notify you in advance.
How to delete cookies
Removing Cookies on Windows Deleting Cookies from Google Chrome on Windows
You can use Incognito Mode (Ctrl + Shift + N) to automatically delete cookies and other session data when you close your browser window. Deleting Cookies in Firefox on Windows
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You can also use Incognito Mode to automatically delete cookies and other session data when you close your browser window.
Deleting Cookies in Firefox on Mac
You can also use a Private Window to automatically delete cookies and other session data when you close your browser window. Deleting Cookies in Safari on Mac
This Platorm enables you, the Data Subject to exercise your rights by submitting a request in respect of your Personal Information.
For more details on how we process your Personal Information, please view our Privacy Notice
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