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“Thanks to the information we have received from international oil companies as well as the reconnaissance operators through the data that have been acquired by means of seismic survey we have realised that there is potential that we might be able to have oil and gas in our offshore areas.”
“What’s missing in South Africa is that we don’t have enough serial entrepreneurs, people who have done it two, three, four times. If you start a business the first time around, you need help.”
“We put a very strong emphasis on hi-tech, and indeed, that is precisely what our broadband rollout has been about. We want to enable ICTs, Information and Communication Technologies, as the bedrock of why services work so well in the Western Cape,” explains Helen Zille, Premier of Western Cape.
“We have to make it easier to invest, and that requires changes in national government policy. But we’re using every opportunity we can to make those changes locally, and we’ve created a much more conducive environment,” says Helen Zille, Premier of Western Cape.
“The Western Cape is number one on every single indicator, including economic growth, and including employment. So we do rank number one, and it’s because we’ve put an enormous effort into building a capable state,” says Helen Zille, Premier of Western Cape.
“We’re also the best prepared city in Africa for the global business environment. That is because we’ve put an enormous amount of investment into preparing for the knowledge economy of the 21st century,” says Helen Zille, Premier of Western Cape.
“South Africa is known in the industry as having very strong environmental safeguards and it expects a lot from its oil and gas operators.”
The largest and deepest natural port in the Southern Hemisphere.
“Perhaps I should say that it started off with a red tape reduction team, but their name has actually changed now and they are called the ease of doing business team,” says Alan Winde, Minister of Economic Opportunities of Western Cape.
“Firstly it is about good governance and that has been the focus for the first term of our government. We need to make sure that government is trusted and that government is doing what it is supposed to be doing, spending its money in the right place etc.,” says Alan Winde, Minister of Economic Opportunities of Western Cape.
