Business

Best businesses get cash boost in prizes

Three local businesses owned by young people received a financial boost after winning the top three places in the Makana Business Plan competition.

No trading centre for hawkers

Hawkers at the proposed informal trading market centre in Dr Jacob Zuma Drive are still waiting for the Makana Municipality to finish the construction work they started.

Makana Tourism boss steps down

Makana Tourism will soon bid farewell to Willem Makkink, who has been at the forefront of Grahamstown tourism development since 1989. Makkink will step down as the Director of Makana Tourism at the end of January.

Costs soar as court reverses township tender

A simple phone call could have saved the municipality more than a million rands - and might have seen work already under way on a recreational facility, desperately needed to help uplift a neglected part of town.

Roxbury re-opens

For cinema-lovers in Grahamstown who were wondering who killed the Roxbury in Pepper Grove Mall, all is not lost. The business did indeed close down, but it is to be re-opened today, according to the Pepper Grove Mall landlord.

Time for new business ideas, more jobs

"It's time for new business ideas," said the owner of an events organising company, who recently co-hosted a business skills workshop in Grahamstown. About 20 local entrepreneurs of all ages came to learn basic business skills at the workshop, which was held at the town hall last Friday.

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