USCDA is proud to also announce the listing of projects from our area in the SA Presidential brochure. This particular brochure was to be circulated on the Investment Summit hosted by the SA President, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa at Sandon Convention Centre. For our area, this is a step towards the right direction. The listed projects […]

The bold initiative taken by RNM in developing an Investment Protocol is commendable and USCDA is encouraging others to follow suit in particular Umdoni and Ugu. The aim is to avoid undesirable and unintended consequences of intra-municipal competition for investment but rather a geographic spread of investment to other areas.Reaching New Heights USCDA prides itself […]

Coming back home in KZN, USCDA has managed to draw attention of provincial government entities that are critical in ensuring committing new investments into the area. This is more evident by the recent partnership with Trade & Investment KZN. As a result of these interactions and commitment TIKZN recently hosted a Business Retention and Expansion […]

On 4- 5 May 2018 USCDA attended the Japan- Africa Trade Forum held in Sandton. There was tremendous interest shown by Japanese companies on Ugu following from aggressive marketing at be Forum. Follow up engagements are continuing with the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO) and the facilitation role played by Executive Management Invest SA is […]

Without any doubt Ugu district has been popularly known as a region dominated by agricultural and tourism sectors. Whilst we acknowledge that, USCDA has taken the initiative to ensure that Ugu district is not left behind in incorporating new/emerging industries into the economy. This includes encouraging and cultivating the idea ofdiversifying existing industries and adding […]

After several interactions with key stakeholders (government and the private sector) for funding to implement NSNP, the KZN Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) has made available an amount of R3million for seed funding.This effectively means that USCDA will in the future be hard at work mobilising people in rural areas, particularly women-owned […]