SA businessmen urged to invest in first DRC SEZ 21September 2014 The Minister of Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Remy Musungayi, has urged South African businesses to consider investing in the country’s first special economic zone. Musungayi was speaking in Kinshasa where he was hosting a delegation from South Africa on a tour of the Maluku Special Economic Zone that the Congolese government is in the process of establishing. “The DRC is endowed with an abundance of natural resources that are untapped or under-exploited. That is the reason why government has decided to establish a special economic zone in order to do manufacturing and beneficiate our natural resources to the benefit of all of the people of the DRC,” said Musungayi. He added that the 850-hectare economic zone, which is a pilot project aimed at testing the feasibility of the special economic zone programme in the country, offered various investment opportunities for South African companies. This, he said, would contribute to the development and growth of the Congolese economy, boost the country’s industrialisation efforts, and improve the well-being of the DRC population in general.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:02:32 +0000
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