Tourism And Related Services
As the diplomatic capital of South Africa, with a rich heritage, favourable location and cultural diversity, the City of Tshwane is a major tourist destination in South Africa, attracting business, leisure as well as shopping, medical and sports tourism. The City also has and is further developing a range of major conference facilities and hotels that can accommodate a wide range and variety of conferencing needs in a business or nature set-up. Cultural and heritage sites that preserve South Africa’s legacy and traditions, together with facilities such as nature reserves and parks further augment the value add of the City as a tourism destination. The City is furthermore a major shopping destination with some of the largest shopping malls in the southern hemisphere and offers world-class private health care infrastructure. Its outstanding sporting infrastructure furthermore has attracted tourists for national and international sporting events.
BUSINESS RETENTION AND EXPANSIONS
TEDA Business Retention and Offerings
TEDA offers a range of services aimed at retaining businesses within Tshwane as
well as assisting with their expansion plans within the City. These services are
classified in the following categories:
• City of Tshwane processes;
• Gauteng Provincial processes;
• National incentives and other approvals;
• Funding facilitation;
• Operational service offerings;
• Administrative service offerings; and
• Strategic service offerings.
City of Tshwane Processes
TEDA provides facilitation services to assist current and potential investors in
Tshwane with approval processes related to the following City processes:
• Zoning guidelines and procedures;
• Land and servitude applications;
• Building plan processes and approvals
• Water connection applications;
• Electricity connection applications;
• Waste management
Gauteng Provincial Processes
TEDA provides facilitation services to assist current and potential assist
investors in Tshwane with approval processes for the following Gauteng Province
processes:
• Environmental Impact Assessment;
• Roads and Bridges applications;
• Infrastructure development;
• One-Stop-Shop Services (Company registrations, work permits etc)
National Application Processes
TEDA provides facilitation services to assist current and potential assist
investors in Tshwane with approval processes for the following National
Government processes:
• Investment Incentives from the Depart of Trade, Industry and Competition (the
DTIC);
• Water Use Licence (WULA)
Funding
TEDA provides facilitation services to assist current and potential investors in
Tshwane with access to funding for their greenfield and brownfield projects from
the following institutions:
• Development Finance Institutions:
o Industrial Development Corporation (IDC);
o Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA);
o Public Investment Corporation (PIC);
o National Empowerment Fund (NEF);
o Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA);
• Commercial Banks;
• Private Equity and Venture Capital Funding;
• Water Use Licence (WULA).
Operating Service Offerings
TEDA frequently undertake physical and virtual workshops within the investor
community to achieve the following objectives:
• Increasing integration of industrial clusters within Tshwane;
• Engaging on topical and relevant economic topics aimed at assisting the
Tshwane investor community to stay abreast of economic developments;
• Facilitating local supplier development between large and small companies
within the Tshwane business community.
Administrative Service Offerings
The following services are offered by TEDA and its partners as part of
One-Stop-Shop Investor services:
• Work permit application facilitation;
• Business VISA facilitation and support;
• Settlement services in Tshwane:
o List of real estate agencies;
o List of legal firms;
o List of local and international schools;
o List of Embassies;
o List of chambers; associations and other organisations.
Strategic Service Offerings
As part of policy advocacy engagements, TEDA facilitates engagements between the
leadership in the City of Tshwane and the investor community. This is done
through the following activities:
• Quarterly engagements between investor community and Tshwane political and
administrative leadership;
• Participation in industrial and regional forum aimed at service delivery and
development in the various regions of the City.