The final in the series of International Business Breakfasts, organised by Connect’d Cape Town, took place June 24th at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

Businesses and entrepreneurs wishing to conduct business in Cape Town will have access to a powerful new facility when the Connect’d Cape Town office opens today at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). Connect’d Cape Town is an initiative aimed at showcasing local skills and expertise as well as attracting and facilitating significant investment and business opportunities to the Cape Town region.

Connect’d Cape Town is hosting a series of international business breakfasts on key World Cup match days. These breakfasts are the only comprehensive, locally-organised business networking opportunities in Cape Town during this period.

With our abundance of wind, waves and sun, South Africa is better positioned to lead the renewable energies charge than just about anywhere else in the world. But in addition to new forms of power generation, surely we should be talking more seriously about introducing daylight saving?

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is now so close that we came across a website the other day that measures the time until countdown in seconds.

South Africans have a rather outdated tendency to think that all of its cities should be the same.  As a result we judge Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and anywhere else in the country by the same criteria, and believe that all our cities should focus on the same industries, compete for the same kind of talent and so on.

 Accelerate Cape Town recently held the second meeting for its member and sponsor organisations this year. As usual, the meeting focused on issues relevant to the continued economic growth of the Cape Town City Region. 

The idea of big business going green is still met with scepticism and doubt by many.  After all, big business has been a source of many of the environmental problems we are challenged by today.  Nevertheless, it has recognized that, not only do they have the ability to affect a disproportionately large positive impact on the environment through their actions, but also that going green will have a positive impact on the bottom line.

As Cape Town welcomes the world's press and sporting VIPs this week for the World Cup draw, what view of the Mother City will we offer the world beyond Table Mountain, two oceans, luxury, squalor, and of course, the ability to throw a humdinger of a party?

Sustainability is becoming part of ‘business as usual’ in many large companies and nowhere is this more evident than in Cape Town, according to Accelerate Cape Town CEO Guy Lundy.  A group of sustainability leaders from some of the largest organisations in the Cape gathered on Thursday, 26 November - brought together as an initiative of Accelerate Cape Town - to connect with each other, share common experiences in the sustainability arena, and to draft a plan of action to achieve jointly-held sustainability goals.