MEDIA ADVISORY

3 APRIL 2023 MINISTER PATEL TO ADDRESS THE SA INVESTMENT CONFERENCE BUSINESS BREAKFAST The Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Mr Ebrahim Patel will address a Business Breakfast meeting to provide an update on government’s state of readiness for the South African Investment Conference (SAIC). The breakfast session will also offer an opportunity for the […]

2022 SOUTH AFRICA INVESTMENT CONFERENCE PLEDGES

Honourable President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the 80 investment pledges received at the SA Investment Conference on 24 March 2022 amounted to R332 billion. With R1.14 trillion in investments to date, this translates to 95% of the initial investment mobilisation drive target of R1.2 trillion that was set out to be achieved within a five-year period. Energy Sector […]

President to open investment conference

Pretoria, 23 March 2022. President Cyril Ramaphosa will open the fourth South African Investment Conference (SAIC) on Thursday [subs: 24 March] at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. In 2018 the president committed to raising R1.2 trillion in five years to boost economic growth and stimulate employment. Since that year three investment conferences have been […]

Widespread support for investment conference

Pretoria, 22 March 2022. The fourth South African Investment Conference (SAIC), to be held on the 24th of March at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, aims to build on the successes of the first three such conferences. As the country has evolved because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference will have a hybrid format […]

SA is on a cusp of an economic rebound

‘Now isn’t the time for pessimism’ By Jeff Radebe Despite the geo-political tension in Eastern Europe, the global economy appears to be on a firm path to recovery after a period of turmoil caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. While some of the hardest hit economies including ours remain vulnerable, emerging green shoots in our economy […]