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Die Skool vir Entrepreneurskap en Besigheidsontwikkeling en die Skool vir Rekeningkunde van die Sentrale Universiteit vir Tegnologie, Vrystaat, het sopas erkenning gegee aan hul toppresteerders vir 2003. 30 kandidate uit 'n totaal van meer as 3 000 studente wat in die akademiese jaar 2003 'n gemiddelde van 75% of meer in al hul vakke behaal het.
The awards were made at a glittering banquet held on 6 May 2004 at Oliewenhuis Museum in Bloemfontein, attended by the winners and their parents and relatives, as well as staff of the two Schools.
In sy toespraak het die Dekaan van die Fakulteit Bestuurswese van die Sentrale Universiteit vir Tegnologie, Vrystaat, prof. Piet le Roux, gewys op die voortgaande sukses van die twee Skole om studente praktykgereed op te lei vir die hoë werkgewersvereistes vir sowel die private as die publieke sektor. 'n Bewys hiervan is dat talle studente sodra hulle afgestudeer het, deur werkgewers vanoor Suid-Afrika opgeraap word. Prof. le Roux het egter ook spesifiek daarop gewys dat opleiding 'n lewenslange proses is en dat indien dit nie deur 'n persoon self bygehou word nie, kwalifikasies totaal verouderd en onvanpas kan raak.
The awards were handed over by the Director of the two Schools, Dr. André van den Berg, who added as follows to the views expressed by Prof. Le Roux: “Lifelong learning is the key to continued personal marketability and without it, upward mobility and career success is unlikely. 50% of what you learn at any point in time will be out of date in the next 5 to 10 years. In order to survive, keep developing and refining the skills and talents the world of work demands. Therefore, the Central University of Technology, Free State, would welcome you back at any time to continue your studies to become either business or academic leaders.”
Intussen het die totale aantal studente aan die Skool vir Entrepreneurskap en Besigheidsontwikkeling en die Skool vir Rekeningkunde in 2004 toegeneem tot
3 920, 'n toename van bykans 25%.
Anyone familiar with Nelson Mandela Drive in Bloemfontein could attest to the fact that as far as business is concerned - both in terms of the variety offered as well as amounts of turnover in any given period - it constitutes one of the most powerful streets in the Free State, if not the most powerful.
Die verskeidenheid van die na skatting 150 besighede wat aangetref word in Nelson Mandela Rylaan is inderdaad wyd - vanaf onderdeleverskaffers tot die kantore van twee munisipaliteite, vanaf twee winkelsentrums tot “rave” klubs, vanaf 'n vulstasie tot 'n hospitaalkompleks, vanaf kantoorblokke tot mediese praktisyns, vanaf …. noem dit!
Although this focus is limited in its extent, it does indicate the power of business being offered and being done in the 3km long Nelson Mandela Drive. The advertisers waving their flags in this feature, do it with one purpose in mind and that is to say : “We're ready to supply you with the best - try us !”
The Bram Fischer Building headquartering the Mangaung Local Municipality (MLM) constitutes not only one of the landmarks of Nelson Mandela Drive in Bloemfontein, but is also a beacon on the landscape of the entire Mangaung metropole area.
However, much more than that, the Bram Fischer Building (or Glass Palace as it is also popularly known) is one of the venues in the Mangaung area where the most business is done, where a lot of business is being reverberated from and where policy planning for local business development is done.
If the total monetary amount is taken in terms of rates and taxes being paid at the Bram Fischer Building on a daily | monthly | annual basis, it comes to a cash flow of millions of rands.
If the significance is considered of the value of building plans and other developmental projects being approved by the MLM, of SMME and LED support being provided by the MLM and the procurement system being run by the MLM, then an idea starts to shape of the significance of the Bram Fischer Building in terms of business and development.
Add to this the impact of the implementation of the MLM's Integrated Developmental Plan and its industrial and investing strategies, then it is clear that the Bram Fischer Building serves to a great extent as a launching pad for development and progress in the Mangaung metropole area and even
ndirectly far beyond.
Therefore seen against the backdrop of the Greater Mangaung covering an area of 6 363 km², being home to some 850 000 residents and functioning as the executive capital of the Free State, the pivotal role of the Bram Fischer Building is clear.
Mangaung is indeed a powerful regional economic center - a world class African city built on the foundation of a dynamic, vibrant, sustainable and investor-friendly economy.
This is all captured within the parameters of MLM's Integrated Development Plan (IDP) outlining the need for an economic development strategy that encourages an environment conducive to creating a business-friendly environment and attractive opportunities for new investors. The four strategic areas of the IDP are economic growth and sustainable livelihood, community resilience and self-reliance, service excellence and sustainability and promoting civic leadership and a shared vision, all pointing to the overriding objective that by 2015 Mangaung should be recognized nationally and internationally as a safe and attractive place to live, work and invest.
Consequently the steps of any person involved either directly or indirectly in this dynamic and powerful development process, have led or will sooner or later lead through the Bram Fischer Building in Nelson Mandela Drive.
As part of Xerox SA, Xerox situated at 146 Nelson Mandela Drive, Bloemfontein, enjoys the global backing of Xerox International, headquartered in the USA. Being a one-stop document solutions supplier providing wide ranges of both hardware and software, as well as other related products, Xerox was named by Fortune Magazine in March 2004 as one of the Most Admired Companies in America.
Criteria for the selection of Most Admired Companies include innovation, financial soundness, employee talent, use of corporate assets, long-term investment value, social responsibility, quality of management, and quality of products and services.
And these qualities are also reflected at Xerox Bloemfontein.
Iemand wat reeds vir meer as twee dekades sake in Nelson Mandela Rylaan (eers Voortrekkerstraat) doen, is mnr. Sakkie van Niekerk van Westelike Provinsie Kelders, Westdene Arkade.
Van Niekerk het in 1980 as 'n Assistent-takbestuurder by WP Kelders begin en was sedert 1982 Takbestuurder van WP Kelders in die Westdene Arkade. In 1995 het hy die Tak gekoop en is hy sedertdien die eienaar van WP Kelders in die Westdene Arkade.
Van Niekerk is ook 'n bekende in padwedlope en het o.a. sy groennommer in die Comrades behaal (minstens 10 keer voltooi).
Sanlam in die Sanlam Gebou, Nelson Mandela Rylaan 163A, het op 20 Mei 2004 'n Instap Kliëntedienskantoor geopen om aan kliënte op die plek 'n persoonlike en volledige polisdiens-funksie te bied. As sulks vorm dit landswyd deel van 'n vestigingsproses van nuwe instapkantore tesame met 'n Inbelsentrum om Sanlam se korporatiewe identiteit te ondersteun en te versterk.
Die ses instapkantore bied 'n volledige polisdiensfunksie aan kliënte en tussengangers, asook 51 kleiner kantore wat as kliëntehulpkantore bekend staan. Die instapkantore is strategies geplaas in Bellville, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein en Oos-Londen. Daarnee saam hanteer die Sanlam Inbelsentrum daagliks sowat 7 500 tot 10 000 oproepe.
Die straatoppervlak van Nelson Mandela Rylaan - as een van die besigste strate in Bloemfontein - word tans deur die Mangaung Plaaslike Munisipaliteit herbou. Eers word een helfte van 'n segment van die straat opgekap en dan herbou, voordat die ander helfte gedoen word.
Hoewel dit 'n positiewe verwikkeling is, kla besighede aan die kant wat herbou word dat hulle natuurlike voetverkeer erg belemmer word, veral as die werkery weke of selfs maande sou duur.
In pas met die landswye tendens toon kleinhandeleiendom ook in die Vrystaat 'n opbloei.
Landswyd het 'n bloeitydperk in die residensiële mark tesame met gunstige toestande in die kleinhandel die afgelope drie jaar daartoe gelei dat die eienaars van winkelruimte groter opbrengste op hul belegging verdien het en beskikbare winkelruimte aansienlik toegeneem het. Kleinhandeleiendom in SA het verlede jaar 'n opbrengs van 17,3% verdien, die hoogste sedert 1999. Hierdie opbrengs is saamgestel uit 'n inkomste-opbrengs van 10,1% en kapitaalgroei van 7,3%. Hierteenoor het kantore slegs 8,5% verdien.
'n Kenmerk van die opbloei in kleinhandelseiendom is die nuwe geriefsentrums wat op talle plekke in voorstede opskiet. Dit is veral die geval in Gauteng en in die Kaapse metropool, maar die tendens is ook in die Vrystaat waarneembaar. Voorbeelde in Bloemfontein is o.m. Victorian Square,. Bloemgate, Showgate, Preller Plein en die nuutaangekondigde Northridge Mall. In Langenhovenpark en Bainsvlei vind 'n ontploffing plaas in nuwe residensiële eiendom en is dit onafwendbaar dat opgegradeerde en ook nuwe geriefsentrums gaan volg.
Op Bethlehem is die toename in kleinhandelseiendom duidelik sigbaar, terwyl op Ladybrand onlangs 'n nuwe winkelsentrum voltooi is. 'n Dorp soos Parys beskik oor 'n opgegradeerde winkel vir elk van Pick 'n Pay, Shoprite-Checkers en Spar. 'n Nuwe winkelsentrum vir Clarens binne die volgende twee jaar lyk na 'n voldonge feit.
Wat ook 'n interessante verskynsel in die groot metropolitaanse sentra in die land is, is dat baie van die streeksentrums in stedelike gebiede nie meer kan uitbrei nie omdat die bestaande infrastruktuur in die omgewing nie 'n verdere toevloei van mense kan hanteer nie. 'n Tipiese voorbeeld is die Fourways Sentrum in die noorde van Johannesburg, waar daar 'n sterk vraag is na bykomende winkelruimte van huurders, maar die bestaande infrastruktuur nie meer enige bykomende toeloop kan hanteer nie. Enige belegging in nuwe winkelruimte sal dus vereis dat daar ook 'n bykomende belegging gedoen word om die infrastruktuur in die omgewing te verbeter. 'n Ander voorbeeld is dat die ontwikkelaars van die Clearwater Sentrum R50 miljoen moes bydra om die paaienetwerk in die omgewing van die sentrum op te knap en 'n nuwe oorbrug te bou. Moontlik sal ontwikkelaars in die Vrystaat hierdie tendens ook in berekening moet bring.
'n Newe-effek van meer geriefsentrums, ook in die Vrystaat, is dat dit weer handelsgeleenthede vir kleiner entrepreneurs in die omgewing skep en sodoende tot 'n hele positiewe kettingreaksie lei.
The team of Water Purifiers & Filters (WPF) at their exhibition stand at the Bloem Show 2004, from left Barry Schönfeldt, Chantel Strydom, Willie Kritzinger and Jimmy Hambakis (managing director from Johannesburg). According to Hambakis, WPF had a highly successful stand at the Bloem Show and they are currently in a process of opening-up a direct branch in Bloemfontein instead of working just through agents.
Die veilings van drie sake eiendomme en 15 woonhuise in Bloemfontein vir die insolvente boedel van mnr. Alan Prior het uitstekende pryse behaal. Die bod vir die drie sake-eiendomme in Westdene is uiteindelik vir R6 miljoen op die Georgiou Trust toegeslaan, terwyl aanbiedinge vir 15 woonhuise in Brandwag op 15 individuele kopers toegeslaan is vir pryse wat gewissel het van R440 000 tot R720 000. Op die foto is 'n deel van die groot aantal belangstellendes tydens die veiling in die tuin van een van die woonhuise.
Whereas the SA financial services arena has recently seen an unprecedented proliferation of products, services and changes in legislation affecting individual financial planning and corporate employee benefits, the field has become tremendously complicated and often confusing for the private individual. In addition to exchange control legislation changes, investors must keep track of changing legislation regarding capital gains tax, estate duty and personal income tax, while investors are also faced with the swing from defined benefit to defined contribution funds. Moreover, access to and affordability of health care services have become a critical issue in both corporate benefit planning and individual financial planning.
The upshot of all this is that given the wide range of investment products, health care deliveries, offshore structures and investment alternatives, as well as the effects of the economy, interest rates and inflation, a holistic view of long-term financial planning is necessary. This is where Advance Wealth Management (Pty) Ltd (“AWM”), a nationwide consulting, asset management and distribution practice which recently opened an office in Bloemfontein, comes in. According to the regional manager of AWM, Mr. Ryno Smith, the aim is to provide objective and professional advisory services to private and corporate clients, particularly with regard to financial planning and corporate benefit requirements. He says he and his staff base their service delivery on stringent risk management and controls, with strict adherence to quality control and service delivery, thus providing the best possible advice and service.
For more info, Smith can be contacted at (051) 409 6560 or cell 082 453 3320.
Speaking at a recent meeting of the Bothaville Sakekamer at Bothaville, the CEO of Harmony Mining, Mr Bernard Swanepoel, said that redundant buildings and facilities of Harmony on the Goldfields are available for the training of small, micro and medium entrepreneurs at a nominal rent of R1 per year. Such training should just be suitably planned and structured, but Harmony is open for proposals and joint venturing.
More info in this regard could be obtained from Ms Hettiënne von Abo of the AHI Free State and chairperson of the Bothaville Sakekamer at (056) 515 3549 or 083 439 1140.
At the Bothaville meeting Mr Swanepoel also commented as follows on rumours that new gold mining shafts are to be sunk at Bothaville : “One day there will be gold mines around Bothaville, but definitely not within the next five years.”
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