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INVEST DURBAN
www.invest.durban
www.durban.gov.za
Invest Durban offer FREE
ACCELERATING SUSTAINABLE
INVESTMENT Investment information and facilitation services
Immigration, import and legal services
Invest Durban (previously DIPA) is a unit of the Business establishment and incentives
eThekwini Municipality recommended by the Durban Investor administration services
City Council and organised private business as the
most appropriate vehicle to promote and facilitate The thrust of Durban’s proposition to attract investors
new investment into the Durban metropolis. can be put into three broad categories:
Premium destination; a business and lifestyle
Invest Durban works together with organisations such environment most conducive to profitable,
as the Department of Trade & Industry including Invest sustainable investments
SA, Trade and Investment KZN (TIKZN), the Durban Catalytic Projects, which have the potential to
Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the KZN Growth shift the socio-economic landscape and trigger a
Coalition, and State-Owned Enterprises such as Dube series of investments across several sectors
TradePort, the DBSA, IDC, Eskom and others. Key Sectors, which receive the focus of planners
Invest Durban’s primary objective is to accelerate in a variety of ways, including the creation of clusters
sustainable investment in Durban for the benefit of all and the development of value chains to promote
through the: new ventures and investment opportunities
Proactive investment promotion and marketing of Catalytic Projects
Durban Metro as a premium investment destination Durban is working on a number of large-scale
Proactive communication and marketing of the City’s projects that have the potential to make a regional
catalytic investment projects and core strategies impact. The location of these projects is vital. They
Identification and development of new investment must either be on national trade routes or they should
especially for previously disadvantaged groups help to break down the old apartheid living/working
Attraction, support and facilitation for prospective dynamics. Projects are selected for their scale in
new foreign investors in Durban plus investor terms of job creation, investment size and potential
aftercare revenue creation. Ideally, the projects should include
Improvement in the investment and economic a combination of functions (retail, commercial and
development environment, in partnership with the housing, for example) and they should fit in with the
national, provincial, city and business authorities UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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