ED RICHARDSON GOVERNMENT WILL actively market South Africa as an investment destination, according to president Thabo Mbeki. Speaking at the opening of Parliament last week, Mbeki said “we will undertake road shows to present incentives available to attract investment including the advantages offered by the Industrial Development Zones. “We will do more to improve our export performance, focusing on services and manufactured goods. “Accordingly, we will engage the export sectors to assist them to take full advantage of the possibilities we have to expand access to the European Union (EU) and the United States markets, as a result, respectively, of the SA-EU Trade and Development Agreement and Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). “We will pay the necessary attention to the earliest possible conclusion of trade agreements with Mercosur, EFTA, the US, India and China. “We will also focus on our further interaction with the African continent, especially within the context of SADC and NEPAD.”
