Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa Real Estate Investor Magazine - May 2017 | Page 37

COMMERCIAL
CHOOSING A COMMERCIAL PROPERTY
FOR YOUR BUSINESS
MPHO FRANKLYN PARKS TAU
CHAIRPERSON OF THE BOARD SOUTH
AFRICAN CITIES NETWORK
“Our local socioeconomic challenges, na-
tional pressures for growth and employ-
ment, global opportunities through Sustain-
able Development Goals (SDGs), Habitat III
and the Paris climate agreement on cities
(at COP21) all point to the critical role of
cities in driving development in environ-
mentally sustainable ways.”
www.reimag.co.za
LEIF PETERSEN
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS FOUNDATION
“By actively facilitating development of
shopping malls in the vicinity of the town-
ship, yet making no allowance for informal
business, local government and big business
form a highly effective partnership to out-
compete and dominate the township retail
grocery sector… In South Africa’s economy
of entrenched inequality this scenario is
highly problematic.”
HEIN DE SWARDT
CENTURY CITY CONNECT
“Nowadays internet connectivity is as essential
a service as water or electricity and should be
available to everyone.”
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