'Red tape crippling business in Bay'

08 February 2013

NELSON Mandela Bay is one of the most expensive cities in the world in which to do business, Continental Tyre SA managing director Dieter Horni said this week.

Horni also slated government for its bureaucratic red tape and inefficiency, saying it had stalled projects that had the potential to create jobs.

Horni, whose company employs 1700 people in the city, said it had been waiting for 18 months for a rezoning application to build a store in Walmer, Port Elizabeth.

This, together with rising electricity, labour and other utility costs – double those of similar size plants in other developing countries – made it near impossible to compete globally.

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Report Abuse Author: royboy Date: 08 February 2013 10:02

Unfortunately this is what happens when you have deployed cadres who have absolutely no idea on how a municipality should be run,including the mayor,in the real world these incompetants would be unemployable they are so useless

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