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Department of Trade and Industry, 8 October 2013 President of France François Hollande to visit SA next week Minister Rob Davies to address media on South Africa-France trade relations The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies, will address the media on the South Africa-France trade relations ahead of French President, HE François Hollande visit to South Africa next week. Minister Davies will highlight the importance of HE François Hollande’s visit in relation to trade and investment and also portray South Africa as an investment destination of choice. “Total trade between the two countries showed signs of recovery from the global economic crisis and increased from R22.7 billion in 2009 to R26.9 billion in 2012, a percentage increase of about 18.5% but have still not managed to recover to the pre-crises levels of R30.6 billion recorded in 2008”, said Minister Davies. Between January 2012 and July 2013 French companies invested in projects worth R690.22 million. The details of the media briefing are as follows: · Date: 9 October 2013 (Wednesday) · Time: 12h00 · Venue: GCIS’s Tshedimosetso House Corner Francis Baard and Festival Str, Hatfield, PTA · There will be a video link to GCIS Imbizo Media centre, Parliament · RSVP: · Mmemme Mogotsi, Tel: 012 473 0355, Cell: 072 856 4288, E-mail: [email protected] Issued by: Department of Trade and Industry <http://www.thedti.gov.za/> Enquiries: Sidwell Medupe, departmental spokesperson Tel: 012 394 1650, Cell: 079 492 1774 E-mail: [email protected] -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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