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Regional Overview of Eastern Cape Province
 Logistics, manufacturing and tourism are key sectors in the upward growth path of the Eastern Cape, South Africa’s top province for agricultural livestock. The province also has high potential as a site for the development of alternative energy. ...read more

Metros of the Eastern Cape
 The Eastern Cape now has two metropolitan municipalities. ...read more

Venue of choice for international events
 International Sevens rugby joins surfing and golf events in the Eastern Cape, the province that hosts South Africa’s biggest arts festival. ...read more

South African Industrial Development Zone Programme
 An Industrial Development Zone is a purpose-built industrial estate linked to an airport or sea port that leverages both domestic and foreign fixed-direct investments in value-added and export-oriented manufacturing industries and services. ...read more

MEC awards top performing contractors in the province
 Top performing housing contractors in the province were honoured during the Govan Mbeki Provincial Housing Awards. The winners of these awards will go on to compete with contractors from other provinces in the national awards to be held in Manguang next month. ...read more

Isuzu Trucks mulls new assembly options
 By 2014, Isuzu Trucks South Africa (Itsa) will have made ‘significant changes’ to the way it assembles trucks locally, says COO Craig Uren. ...read more

Transnet in talks with car groups on East London, Rosslyn rail deal
Transnet CEO Brian Molefe says the State-owned freight logistics group is in talks with luxury car manufacturers Mercedes-Benz and BMW on a new transport plan that could increase the number of vehicles transported domestically by rail. ...read more

Ports a focal point of development - Zuma
 President Jacob Zuma on Friday officially opened the state-of-the-art deep-water Port of Ngqura in Port Elizabeth, marking a major milestone in South Africa's infrastructure development efforts and its commitment to regional economic development. ...read more

FAW breaks ground on 5 000 unit-a-year truck plant
 Fortune-500 company First Automobile Works (FAW) on Tuesday broke ground on its new truck assembly plant in the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ), just outside Port Elizabeth, with production scheduled to start at the end of 2013. ...read more












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