Tagged With: Uitenhage
Economics, not politics must drive inner cities
The development of South Africa’s cities is critical to creating jobs and improving economic growth rates, but without partnerships, finding niches, being uber competitive and technologically advanced, this will not happen, delegates at a development conference heard on the weekend. An especially big stumbling block would be if politics rather than economics drove the development. … Continue reading
Letting Rex off the lead
EMPOWERMENT icon Brimstone looks set to cause a flutter among the corporate fashionistas and perennially fashionable value investors. This week Brimstone signalled an intention to cast off its investment in fashion retailer Rex Trueform (RexTru). Brimstone acquired an effective 34.6% stake in RexTru in late 2007. At last count, the empowerment company’s interest in Rextru … Continue reading
Boxing promoter may buy ailing Bay Utd
UITENHAGE-BORN businessman, Butityi Konki, may be in the queue to purchase ailing Port Elizabeth-based First Division soccer side Bay United. Konki, who is International Boxing Federation lightweight contender Ali Funeka’s business manager, said he would not have a problem being the club’s new owner after United owners, Izingwe Holdings’ decision to get rid of the … Continue reading
Jubilee Park Primary to get a face-lift
A FACE-LIFT is on the cards for a dilapidated primary school in Uitenhage, teachers and parents heard yesterday. Members of Bhisho’s standing committee on education yesterday visited Jubilee Park Primary School, where they promised the woes of the school’s plank classrooms would be a thing of the past. Standing committee chairman Mzoleli Mrara and chief … Continue reading