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Denise van Huyssteen is the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber chief executive
Business in Nelson Mandela Bay is actively engaging with civil society and local authorities to address challenges in infrastructure, service delivery, and public safety, recognizing that neither government nor any single sector can…
Our metro and country still face many stumbling blocks to an enabling environment for investment and economic growth at levels that will meaningfully tackle unemployment and poverty, writes Denise van Huyssteen.
If Nelson Mandela Bay continues at the current rate of water going to waste, full dams will be close to empty again in the near future.
Nelson Mandela Bay is SA’s most fixable metro, writes Denise van Huyssteen.
If Nelson Mandela Bay wants to go far and achieve a metro that sustainably works for all its people, and puts all its people to work, we need to work collaboratively and act together for the greater good, writes Denise van Huyssteen
The current power and water outage crisis in Nelson Mandela Bay highlights the critical impact of the lack of adequate maintenance of the metro’s electricity and water infrastructure over many years, and the impact it has on the lives of…
Just a fortnight into the new year and it’s clear that Flight 2026 needs to come with an upgraded safety briefing and a warning label.
Nelson Mandela Bay’s peak tourism season is upon us — and we know from recent media reports and just by looking at the state of the metro around us, that our state of readiness is, at best, uneven.
Windy, armpit, ghost on the coast, backwater – Nelson Mandela Bay has had many insults thrown at it over the years, and yet this metro remains a desirable place to live and do business.
SA Automotive Week comes to Nelson Mandela Bay this week from Wednesday to Friday, marking 90 years of South African automotive manufacturing in the birthplace of an industry now facing arguably the most severe set of threats to its…
Business in Nelson Mandela Bay faces an unprecedented array of threats to survival; unprecedented in scale as well as in the sheer number of challenges to be faced simultaneously.
The clock is ticking; with just hours left until the potential imposition of a 30% import tariff on SA goods entering the US market.
Globalisation of economies and manufacturing supply chains is a reality which is here to stay, but as much as we seek to be a globally-connected economy we have to ensure that Nelson Mandela Bay remains a site of local manufacturing by…
The SA automotive industry’s two most significant international events will be hosted in Nelson Mandela Bay this year, underscoring not only our leading role in history and the present day as the anchor of local automotive manufacturing —…
It was estimated as far back as 2017 that 85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 have not even been invented yet.
