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banners[number++] = "<h3>Agriculture &amp; Agri-processing</h3><p>Gauteng produces a higher proportion of the food that it consumes than is generally realised. The southern and eastern parts of the province, in particular, are agriculturally productive areas, but as a contributor to the gross domestic product (GDP) of the province, agriculture is an insignificant 0.5%. Despite this, some 15% of South Africa's farming output is produced by Gauteng, giving an indication of the relative size of the province's output in other sectors.Even in the rural areas of Gauteng the sector only contributes 2.3% to GDP, so there is tremendous scope for increasing this as a means to providing better food security and employment, a fact the provincial government has factored into its planning. The northern tip of South Africa's maize triangle falls within Gauteng Province and the farming of cotton, groundnuts and sorghum is undertaken in areas near Bronkhorstspruit and Heidelberg. Other products that are produced in large volumes are vegetables, fruit, dairy products, poultry and eggs. Western Gauteng has large-scale commercial farming in maize, grain, sunflower seeds and beef cattle, but relatively little agri-processing is done in this part of the province. To the east of Pretoria, residents of the Metsweding District Municipality traditionally farmed cattle and grew maize. But the success of companies such as Ludwig's Roses (near Cullinan) has shown that flower-growing can be a lucrative concern. The main farm has over 500 000 plants representing at least 1 500 varieties of roses. In Pretoria East, Ludwig's has a cut-rose outlet where more than 30 000 rose stems are cut daily. By far the most important role played by Gauteng is in food processing: half of South Africa's processing companies are located in the province. This is examined in detail in the Food and Beverages overview.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=1&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Banking</h3><p>The financial-services industry contributes 21% to Gauteng's gross domestic product. More than 70 local banks have their head offices in Gauteng, as do investment houses, traders and stockbrokers, and a significant number of foreign entities. Add to that the Reserve Bank and the JSE Securities Exchange, Africa's largest stock exchange, and one has a sense of the strength of this sector in Gauteng.Gauteng is an ideal entry point into the African economy, which is why local and international financial-services companies are establishing headquarters in the province. Barclays Bank Africa and Old Mutual are just two examples of major companies that have relocated to Johannesburg in recent years.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=3&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Business Support Services</h3><p>Business-support services are those that operate in specialist areas to free up the companies that use them so that they can focus on their core business. Such services include security, catering, cleaning, accounting, legal services, furniture and stationery supply, software and hardware management, recruitment, consulting, call centres, customer care and many other key services that are better left to the experts. The size and success of the economy in Gauteng is an indication that businesses are being ably supported and are therefore in a position to concentrate on the key elements of their own success.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=5&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Call Centres &amp; Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)</h3><p>South africa's call-centre industry has been growing at a rate of 8% for the four years since 2006 and employs about 54 000 call-centre agents, according to the national Department of Trade and Industry. The acquisition of one of South Africa's largest privately owned call centre companies, Call Centre Nucleus (CCN), by Indian giant, Aegis, in 2009 is a sign of the attractiveness of South Africa. Aegis intends to invest R500-million over three years into growing the Sandton-based CCN company to other parts of South Africa and extending its workforce from 1 000 to 6 000. Aegis operates in the US, Kenya, Costa Rica, the Philippines and India, where the company recruits 1 000 new people annually. A key feature of the South African call-centre sector is that local companies have built up their call centres businesses gradually over the past five to 10 years. Customer service is the most significant function, with domestic retailers such as Pick n Pay and private healthcare companies establishing large and efficient contact centres to offer customer-care services.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=6&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Construction &amp; Materials</h3><p>National, provincial and municipal authorities are engaged in an unprecedented cycle of investment in infrastructure that is proving a boon to the construction industry. Some of this is related to the 2010 Fifa World Cup, but much of it is simply providing the roads and bridges that the South African economy needs to grow. National government will spend upwards of R700-billion between 2009 and 2011. Rail, port and pipeline parastatal Transnet alone will spend R80.5-billion, so opportunities in the construction sector are plentiful. However, the ability of the industry to make enough concrete and to get enough trained workers on site will be tested in this period. In times of economic uncertainty, the construction industry actually bucked the national trend by growing, showing 10.8% quarter-on-quarter growth at the end of the fourth quarter 2008. With an income of R174-billion, the industry contributes only 3.8% to national gross domestic product (GDP) but employs more than a million people. Government is the main client of the industry, accounting for between 40% and 50% of work. The two most significant subsectors of the construction industry are general building (34.5% of expenditure comes from this group) and civil engineering (29.7%). Gauteng's 18 207 registered contractors represent 24.6% of the nation's total.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=9&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Development Finance</h3><p>Development financing aims to build new businesses or support existing businesses as they seek to expand. South African development finance institutions (DFIs) have adapted their product offerings to suit the dynamic environment in which they operate. In line with developmental aims, the focus of DFIs is on the extension of working capital to entrepreneurs operating small-, medium- or microsized enterprises (SMMEs). These are often the most flexible vehicles for economic expansion and job creation. The Gauteng Enterprise Propeller (GEP) was established in 2005 by the provincial Department of Economic Development to provide financial and non-financial support for the benefit of SMMEs. The GEP forms part of the provincial government's ambitions to halve poverty and unemployment in Gauteng and to ensure increased participation by SMMEs in the mainstream economy. </p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=42&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Education</h3><p>Education and training in Gauteng encompasses more than 2.5 million pupils and students attending 3 374 schools, colleges and universities. The province is also home to excellent research institutes, some of which are linked to one or other of Gauteng's highly regarded tertiary-education faculties. Gauteng also has three of South Africa's top five business schools: the Wits Business School, the University of South Africa's (Unisa's) Graduate School of Business Leadership and the Gordon Institute of Business Science, on the Sandton campus of the University of Pretoria. The provincial government's education budget has steadily been growing since R10-billion was spent in 2004/05. For the financial year 2008/09, the figure had risen above R15-billion. Of this, nearly 80% is spent on the public schooling system, 4% on further education and training (FET) and 2% on adult basic education and training (Abet). Planned expenditure for 2010/11 will rise to R20-billion. </p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=10&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Energy</h3><p>While the focus in recent times has been on government, businesses and individuals being more efficient in their use of energy, there is also a growing awareness that saving is not enough and that alternative forms of power generation have to be found. In the light of this, it is interesting to note that in October 2009, Johannesburg hosted the first conference of the International Solar Energy Society to be held on African soil. More than 1 000 international participants presented papers and debated every aspect of the solarenergy spectrum, from heating and cooling, climate change and the role of solar energy in community development to designing buildings and promoting solar principles. The conference was co-hosted by the Sustainable Energy Society Southern Africa (Sessa). Concurrently with the conference, Sessa held a trade exhibition designed to showcase the latest technologies in alternative energy and to show how they can be used in homes and in businesses. The theme of the Renewable Energy Expo was ‘Efficient, Alternative, Sustainable'. </p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=123&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Engineering</h3><p>The gautrain, upgrades to stadiums and airports in preparation for the 2010 Fifa World Cup, and a major highway-upgrade scheme are just the biggest of the infrastructure projects that are exercising the minds of Gauteng's best and brightest engineers. The combined value of the four megaprojects listed above is R60-billion. To meet the complex and varied needs of these and other construction and refurbishment schemes under way in the province, every major construction firm in the country has taken on some work and several foreign concerns have been called in to partner local consortiums. The Bombela Concession Company (Bombela), which holds the 20-year concession to design, build, part-finance and operate the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link, has several shareholders including South African engineering giant Murray & Roberts; Bouygues Travaux Publics, a French firm with construction revenues of six billion euros; Strategic Partners Group, a BEE group; underground-rail specialists Bombardier UK; and a subsidiary of Absa Bank. Bombela's subsidiaries – Bombela Civils Joint Venture, Bombela Electrical and Mechanical Works and so on – oversee aspects of this complicated project. </p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=11&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Food & Beverages</h3><p>Half the companies operating in the food and beverages sector in South Africa are located in Gauteng. They employ approximately 50 000 workers and contribute almost R10-billion to Gauteng's gross geographic product. What the province lacks in primary production, it makes up for in terms of processing, packaging and distribution: there are approximately 4 000 food-processing companies operating in the province. Many distribution hubs are also located in the province, especially for dispatch to Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia. With its established urban centres, world-class transport infrastructure and convenient central location, Gauteng is used by many international food and beverages companies as their springboard into Africa. Chocolate manufacturer Cadbury has plants in various parts of Southern Africa but its administrative headquarters are in Sandton. </p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=13&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>ICT - Information &amp; Communication Technology</h3><p>Gauteng is home to more than two-thirds of South Africa's IT companies, and the ICT sector in the province contributes more than 6% to regional GDP. The sector constitutes a complex combination of hardware manufacturing, software design and various service offerings such as software management, systems programming and technical support. International giants like Microsoft, Hewlett- Packard, IBM, ICL, Cisco and Unisys all have a strong presence in Gauteng, as do South Africa's own home-grown ICT businesses. The combined ICT market in South Africa is estimated to be in the region of US$3.8-billion. Collaborations in ICT Situated in Pretoria, The Innovation Hub is South Africa's first internationally accredited Science Park and is the leading knowledgeintensive business cluster in South Africa. The Innovation Hub provides a unique place for high-tech entrepreneurs to come together in an environment that promotes innovation and enhances competitiveness for knowledgebased businesses. </p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=14&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Mining &amp; Metals</h3><p>One of Johannesburg's nicknames is Egoli, meaning Place of Gold. Gold was the reason for the establishment of the city and for the massive urban expansion that supported the discovery of the mineral. Today the mining industry is still important, but it has been surpassed by several other sectors. This is in line with a national trend that has seen mining decline as a contributor to the national gross domestic product (GDP) from 15% in 1985 to 6% in 2005. In that year, 31% of employment within the mining sector was in gold (about 140 000 jobs) but companies mining gold have had to tread carefully in current economic times. Despite this, several companies are continuing their capital expenditure programmes, if not quite as ambitiously as originally planned. The Chamber of Mines reported that national output of gold fell to 220 552kg in 2008. Over and above power outages that hit the industry in 2008, operators had to deal with rising input costs and the strengthening of the rand. Set against this is the fact that South African mining companies spend rands and earn dollars. </p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=27&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Legal Services</h3><p>Established as a vital part of the negotiated settlement that ushered in democracy after 1994, the Constitutional Court is the ultimate arbiter of whether law or actions are consistent with the country's founding document. The court is situated on Constitution Hill, a modern complex built over the site of an infamous jail in downtown Johannesburg. Other major courts situated in Gauteng are two high courts (South, in Johannesburg, and North, in Pretoria), the Land Claims Court (headquartered in Randburg) and the Labour Court (in Braamfontein, near the Constitutional Court). As the new democratic order has been established, so has new legislation been promulgated and tested. This has created new areas of work for law firms, creating specialties in previously unchartered territory like land reform and black economic empowerment. Some of the bigger firms have offices in Africa and international associations. </p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=17&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Media</h3><p>Gauteng is home to South Africa's most competitive newspaper market, the headquarters of the state broadcaster, and the biggest private television company in Africa. It hosts the head offices of several large publishing houses and the largest conglomeration of radio stations in the region. In addition, the province has considerable manufacturing capacity in terms of printing, stationery and packaging. Broadcast media Randburg-based MultiChoice, which operates DStv, is Africa's biggest subscription satellitetelevision service provider. Its sister company, pay-television-channel provider M-Net, is also based in the province. Gauteng is home to South Africa's stateowned television and radio broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). The SABC holds three of the country's free-toair television licences, as well as a number of commercial and public radio stations.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=44&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Healthcare &amp; Pharmaceuticals</h3><p>Primary healthcare remains the foundation of the provincial health system and, both in terms of infrastructure and personnel, Gauteng is well catered for. The Gauteng Department of Health and Social Development runs 40 provincial hospitals and communityhealth centres. The province has embarked on a programme of building new hospitals. Vosloorus is the site of a R1-billion development, while a new facility in the Jabulani area in Soweto is also under construction. Plans are under way for further hospitals to be built at Diepsloot, Daveyton, Kruisfontein and Lenasia. Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, with its nearly 3 000 beds, is the largest acute hospital in the world, covering 230 000 square metres and serving approximately 3.5 million people. Community healthcare, in the form of provincial hospitals, regional clinics and community health centres, is an integral part of the system of care within the province. In its efforts to ensure that there are sufficient health workers, government has exceeded its goal to train 3 000 community-health workers throughout the province. A further 1 000 will be trained annually and deployed across the province to the areas that need them most. </p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=21&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Telecommunications</h3><p>Gauteng has a sophisticated, yet effective telecommunications system, with most of the country's major telecommunications concerns headquartered in the province. Deregulation of the telecommunications industry in South Africa and the emergence of Neotel as competition for the established parastatal, Telkom, has created opportunities for increased competition in the sector. In Gauteng, and especially in the urban centres, telecommunication products and services are the equal of anywhere in the world. As the country's business centre, it is imperative that companies are equipped to operate at a similar level to their international competitors. The national Department of Communications sees bringing down the cost of communication as its biggest challenge. Allied to this is the understanding that reduced costs alone are not a solution. There needs to be investment in essential infrastructure and a greater degree of fair competition among service providers.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=23&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Tourism &amp; Leisure</h3><p>South africa has set the goal of increasing tourism's contribution to the national gross domestic product (GDP) from 8% to 12% by 2012. In the 1990s it was just over 4%, but by 2006 it was more than double that figure. Recent tourist figures suggest that the goal is not unrealistic: an all-time high of 9.6 million tourists visited South Africa in 2008, half a million more than the previous year. In Gauteng, tourism accounts for 5% of provincial GDP, compared to about 8% nationally. The province's international airport is the most important point of arrival in South Africa. As such, Gauteng's role in the tourism industry of South Africa is pivotal. The province also has impressive assets in several tourism subsectors. These include the greatest concentration of conference facilities on the continent, a large number of world-class sporting facilities, many cultural and historical attractions (including the Cradle of Humankind, a World Heritage Site) and lakes, dams and rivers suitable for water sports and recreation.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=24&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Utilities</h3><p>Gauteng is south africa's largest consumer of resources and generates 80% of South Africa's waste. Ensuring that the supply of electricity and water is maintained is on the minds of political leaders and engineers, while waste-management issues are also coming to the fore. The biggest city in the province, Johannesburg, has three standalone utility companies that charge for their services: Johannesburg Water, City Power and Pikitup, the waste-management entity. Illegal dumping of 93 000 tonnes of waste in the city of Johannesburg alone costs R70-million per annum to clean up. Twenty-five new collection centres for old computers were opened in the course of 2009, helping to solve the growing problem of e-waste. National parastatal Eskom generates more than 95% of South Africa's electricity. Demand for power in 2008 led to breaks in supply that had a negative impact on businesses, in particular on the mining industry. In response, Eskom is rolling out a major investment programme to ensure that supply meets increasing demand. The country's growth rate will depend on Eskom meeting its targets. </p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=45&p_site_id=128>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"


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