Business process outsourcing in SA

Bandwidth price cuts for BPO investors

Telkom has announced its willingness to work with the government's incentive programme by significantly dropping bandwidth costs for the business process outsourcing and offshoring industry in South Africa.

Tourism, manufacturing incentives

South Africa has launched an Enterprise Investment Programme, offering investment support to small and medium manufacturing and tourism companies based outside the country's major metropolitan areas

Giving film makers a break

South Africa has announced revised film and television production incentives aimed both at growing the local industry and attracting more foreign productions to the country.

Auto incentive plan 'by year-end'

South Africa's automotive sector has a significant role to play in boosting the country's economic growth rate, President Thabo Mbeki said recently, vowing that the government would complete the review of its Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) by the end of the year.

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The A to Z of SA's IDZs

Industrial Development Zones (IDZ) are designed to encourage international competitiveness in South Africa's manufacturing sector. Experts say IDZs will be "islands of free zone efficiency in a sea of red tape" - but what exactly has got the industry so excited?

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