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A US agricultural trade mission met South African food industry delegates in Sandton this week for talks on developing trade relations between South African and US food producers.

South Africa’s growing demand for clean, potable water continues to put pressure on resources and infrastructure, a trend that is common all over Africa. An estimated R570bn will be needed over the next 10 years to maintain and expand South Africa’s water infrastructure. “Companies from around the world are queuing up to help solve our water problems,” says John Thomson, Managing Director of Exhibition Management Services, organisers of Watertec Africa, the dedicated international water industry exhibition being held at Gallagher Convention Centre from 14 to 16 May 2013.

The dwindling competitiveness of the South African manufacturing sector is to blame for the dramatic decline in the country’s exports to the EU, not Europe’s current economic woes, a senior foreign diplomat said in Stellenbosch this week.

SOUTH AFRICA’S biggest ship repair and oil rig servicing company, Dormac, was chosen as the Western Cape’s exporter of the year in the 22nd annual competition run by the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry and sponsored by Absa Capital.