Overview
- The three-day conference in Kimberley, which opened Monday, drew more than 900 investors, officials and financiers.
- Day one launches included an InvestSA One-Stop Shop that gives investors a single point of contact for permits and approvals and a new NEF–Northern Cape transformation fund.
- The NEF also introduced eight black-owned firms, which it says created 229 new jobs and kept 110 existing roles.
- Provincial leaders set a goal to lift GDP to R200 billion and add 60,000 jobs by 2030, with Trade Minister Parks Tau backing a 3D industrial push spanning green hydrogen at Boegoebaai, data centres and mineral beneficiation.
- Local reporting flagged dysfunction at Sol Plaatje Municipality, including a collapsed budget meeting and service lapses in Kimberley, raising the risk of Section 139 provincial intervention.