Eastern Cape South Africa

The Eastern Cape in South Africa is South Africa’s best kept secret. The province has a population of over six million people and his filled with tremendous investment and trade opportunities in sectors below.

Ø Automotive and Auto Components: The auto components sector is rapidly growing and is aimed at the export market in particular. The Eastern Cape houses 40% of South Africa’s automotive industry, which include V W, Mercedes Benz, Ford, GM, and BMW.

Ø Textile and Clothing: Major export opportunities for clothing produced in the Eastern Cape will fall under the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA) and the EU-SA Free Trade Agreement which provide significant markets for South African manufacturers.

Ø Plastics: The plastic manufacturing industry is one of the province’s fastest growing industries. There is viable investment and trade opportunities existing in the automotive plastics and advanced tooling.

Ø Call Centres/Business Process Outsourcing: Investment opportunities exist in the Call Centres/Business process-outsourcing sector. The province has the lowest labour cost in the country.

Ø Property: The Eastern Cape offers potential investors the opportunity to invest in the property development sector.  There are opportunities in the construction of commercial building and residential apartments and complexes.

Ø Tourism:  The Eastern Cape tourism sector boasts about hosting all of South Africa’s seven vegetation types. It has the “Big 7,” Addo Elephant Park, waterfalls, rivers, and ski resorts and is a malaria fre zone. Investment opportunities exist in game reserve, hotel construction, golf courses, and expansion of existing spas.

Botswana

Botswana has an investment friendly climate that offers the country many advantages that have attracted investors from countries such as: South Africa, Portugal, China, India, United Kingdom and Mauritius. A broad range of investment opportunities exist in the following areas:

Ø Polishing of diamonds and semi-precious stones:

Ø Leather goods: There is potential for a modern tannery to process raw hides to finished leather; this would lead to the development of spin-off industries such as the manufacture of leather shoes, bags, belts, etc. Raw hides are available in Botswana.

Ø Glass products: There is an abundance of raw materials for glass manufacture; silica sand, quartz, quartzite, limestone and soda ash.

Ø Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Diversification into ecotourism, cultural and educational development and other untouched and unspoiled areas provides tremendous investment opportunities in the tourism sector.

Ø Coal mining: Botswana is endowed with over 200 million tones of coal deposit in the Mmamabula area in central Botswana. Given international demand for coal the country economy stands to benefit to the tune of about US$5.9 trillion

Jamaica

Jamaica is becoming premier destination for trade and investment for some of the world’s leading companies and brands. As a stable developing nation competing for investment and trade opportunities, Jamaica’s business acumen, rich culture, creativity and energy  combined with its geographic location  and resources, make it one of the world’s best  investment and trade opportunities destinations. There are investment opportunities in the following areas:

Ø Manufacturing

Ø Tourism

Ø Off-shore banking

Ø Agro –Processing and Agro-Business

Ø Bauxite and Mining

Ø Other Professional Services

Ø Events Staging and Management