South African Business 2016 edition
South African Business is an annual guide to business and investment in South Africa. Published by Global Africa Network Media in Cape Town, the 2016 edition is in its fourth year of publication. The publication provides up-to-date information and analyses of the country's key economic sectors, as well as detailed economic overviews of each of the nine provinces in South Africa.
South African Business is an annual guide to business and investment in South Africa. Published by Global Africa Network Media in Cape Town, the 2016 edition is in its fourth year of publication.
The publication provides up-to-date information and analyses of the country's key economic sectors, as well as detailed economic overviews of each of the nine provinces in South Africa.
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OVERVIEW<br />
PERSONAL & GENERAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES 20%<br />
FINANCE, REAL ESTATE & BUSINESS SERVICES 13%<br />
TRANSPORT, STORAGE & COMMUNICATION 7%<br />
WHOLESALE, RETAIL, MOTOR TRADE, CATERING<br />
& ACCOMMODATION 11%<br />
CONSTRUCTION 2%<br />
ELECTRICITY, GAS & WATER 1%<br />
MANUFACTURING 5%<br />
MINING & QUARRYING 39%<br />
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & FISHING 2%<br />
North West sector contribution.<br />
SOURCE: INVEST NORTH WEST.<br />
country’s platinum is found<br />
in the Rustenburg and Brits<br />
districts, which produce more<br />
platinum than any other single<br />
area in the world.<br />
North West also produces a<br />
quarter of <strong>South</strong> Africa’s gold,<br />
as well as granite, marble, fluorspar<br />
and diamonds.<br />
Employment along the<br />
Platinum Corridor, from<br />
Pretoria to eastern Botswana,<br />
accounts for over a third of total<br />
employment in North West.<br />
The North West is responsible<br />
for 64% of platinum, 46%<br />
of the granite and 25% of the<br />
gold produced in the country.<br />
Platinum is found in the<br />
Rustenburg and Brits regions,<br />
which produce more platinum<br />
than any other area in the world.<br />
Granite, marble and diamonds<br />
are also mined in the province.<br />
The Bushveld Igneous Complex is found in the region and is<br />
rich in PGMs as well as minerals like iron, tin, chromium, titanium<br />
and vanadium.<br />
<strong>South</strong> Africa produces 70% of the world’s chrome, and most of<br />
it is sourced in the North West where there are 20 chromite mines.<br />
The manufacturing sector comprises mostly fabricated metals,<br />
food and beverages and non-metallic minerals such as cement<br />
and stone.<br />
Food and beverages is the biggest subsector contributing<br />
to the manufacturing industry.<br />
Major companies with manufacturing capacity in the North<br />
West like Nestlé, Rainbow Chickens, Tydstroom and Clover<br />
have all taken advantage of the province’s strategic location<br />
adjacent to the business hub of Gauteng.<br />
Agriculture<br />
North West is sometimes referred to as the Texas of <strong>South</strong><br />
Africa, with some of the largest cattle herds in the world found at<br />
Stellaland near Vryburg.<br />
The Marico region is also cattle country, while the areas around<br />
Rustenburg and Brits are fertile, mixed- crop farming land.<br />
The province is an important food basket in <strong>South</strong> Africa.<br />
Maize and sunflowers are the most important crops and the<br />
North West is the major producer of white maize in the country.<br />
NORTH WEST www.nwpg.gov.za<br />
Capital Population Area Premier<br />
Mahikeng 3 707 000 (2015) 104 882km 2 Supra Mahumapelo (ANC)<br />
Languages Tswana, Afrikaans, Sotho, Xhosa, Tsonga<br />
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