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Verskaffer op VW se voorstoep

October 17, 2009 by Riette

Die Duitse maatskappy Benteler Automotive, wat onderstelle, paneelborde en modderskerms vir die voertuigbedryf vervaardig, gaan ’n aanleg van R178 miljoen in Uitenhage open om so na as moontlik te wees aan Volkswagen Suid-Afrika (VWSA), waaraan hy verskaf.

Mnr. Hubertus Benteler, voorsitter, het gesê die maatskappy probeer oor die wêreld heen sy fabrieke naby sy klante bou weens stygende logistieke en vervoerkoste.

Omdat baie maatskappye in die nadraai van die ekonomiese krisis min bedryfskapitaal tot hul beskikking sal hê, moet koste ook beperk word, het hy gesê.

Die fabriek, in die Nelson Mandelabaai- (NMB) Logistieke Park, sal 20 000 m² beslaan. Dit sal 250 werkgeleenthede skep en in Julie volgende jaar met produksie begin. Bouwerk aan die struktuur het op 1 Oktober begin.

Die maatskappy sal eers net aan VWSA verskaf, maar later dalk ook aan ander klante, het Benteler gesê. Die maatskappy het verskeie sakeafdelings en het meer as 70 jaar se ondervinding in die voertuigvervaardigingsbedryf.

Mnr. Dave Powels, besturende direkteur van VWSA, het gesê met Benteler feitlik op sy voorstoep sal VWSA sy doelwit vinniger kan bereik om die plaaslike inhoud van sy voertuie van die huidige sowat 40% tot meer as 70% op te stoot.

VWSA het sowat anderhalf jaar gelede ’n strategie ingestel om onder meer plaaslike inhoud te vergroot, en ’n deel daarvan is om nuwe verskaffers na die NMB- Logistieke Park te bring. Die belegging pas ook in by VWSA se fokus op vaardigheidsontwikkeling.

Benewens ’n groter plaaslike inhoud moet onderdele wat plaaslik vervaardig word, ook koste-mededingend met die res van die wêreld wees, het Powels gesê.

Daarvoor bring Benteler splinternuwe tegnologie na Suid-Afrika in die vorm van ’n hittegedrewe vormingstegniek vir staalonderdele. Benteler het gesê sy maatskappy is die wêreldleier in dié tegnologie.

’n Afvaardiging van Benteler het gister ’n ooreenkoms met die Coega-ontwikkelingskorporasie (COK) onderteken om hom in die NMB- Logistieke Park te vestig.

Dié familie-onderneming is die negende belegger in die park.

Die COK sal die gebou oprig. Benteler sal van die toerusting plaaslik bekom, terwyl ander deur die Ngqura-hawe ingevoer sal word.

Mnr. Mcebisi Jonas, LUR vir ekonomiese ontwikkeling, het Benteler verwelkom en gesê dit wys die maatskappy se vertroue in die streek.

Hy het gesê indien die regering nie proaktief vennootskappe met die private sektor bou nie, sal ontwikkeling nie plaasvind nie en sal die regering baie van sy doelwitte nie behaal nie.

Daar is geen botsing van die doelstellings van die sakegemeenskap en die regering in Suid-Afrika nie, want albei beywer hulle vir ekonomiese groei.

Die LUR het ook gesê ’n ekonomie wat sleg vaar, is dié met ’n swak private sektor.

Benteler se profiel

Benteler het 150 fabrieke in 35 lande. In Suid-Afrika het hy ’n aanleg in Alberton, van waar daar uitgevoer word. Die maatskappy verskaf ook aan voertuigvervaardigers in Indië, Rusland en Suid-Amerika.

 

Artikel geneem uit: Beeld

Congress of the people releases their policies

December 8, 2008 by evl

South Africans should be able to vote abroad

November 22, 2008 by evl

What kind of crap is that, that South African citizens are not able to vote abroad? Criminals can vote but people who left the country because of crime but really want to come back cant vote. See they want the country to change before they do come back and how can that be possible if they have no say in matters. If they were born here they are South African and they must have the right to vote. A discussion about this topic is also busy as we speak at Constitutionally speaking So why cant they vote? The reason people outside the country cant vote is probably because the ANC passed a law quickly before the 2004 elections As a old article from 2004 rights from news24 :
Parliament adopted a controversial election bill on Friday that excludes citizens living abroad from voting in general elections next year. The Electoral Laws Amendment Bill was adopted after a last-minute change that effectively bars any South African abroad from voting in elections, expected to be held during the first half of 2004. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) supported the withdrawal of a clause to the bill, which was approved by the National Assembly's home affairs committee last Friday. The clause would have allowed special votes to students, businessmen, travellers, and citizens temporarily out of the country to vote.
Today Helen Zille met with the IEC to chat about some things and amonst the topics that came up was just this. From news24:
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille will lobby for the right of all South Africans living abroad to vote, at a meeting with Independent Electoral Commission head Brigalia Bam on Friday, the party said. Zille said that Section 33(1)(e) of the Electoral Act provides for South African citizens who are temporarily abroad - for purposes of a holiday, a business trip, attending a tertiary institution, or participating in an international sports event - to vote in national and provincial elections by special vote. The DA believes that the section should be extended to include South African citizens who are living abroad, many of whom intend returning. In addition, to enable these South Africans abroad to vote, it is essential for the IEC to make provision for them to register at South African embassies and consulates. This is critical if the IEC is to fulfil its constitutional mandate.

68 Twitter tools to satisfy your twitter addiction

October 26, 2008 by evl

I like twitter. So, i decided to do a post about twitter. Here it is :) Twitter tools for Firefox Twitterfox - Twitter app for firefox, sits in the bottom. Twittermore - Firefox extension that lets you post longer than 140 characters Twitterbar - Post directly to twitter from your address bar Twitbin - Twitter communication from firefox. Twitkit - A entire sidebar dedicated to Twitter. (has other features as well) Dashblog - Collect media and post it to twitter / blog TwittyTunes - Post your currently playing songs to twitter with one click Tinyurl Creator - Shrink urls quickly for twitter BlogRovr - Twit about the site you are on Feedly - Rss reader integrated with twitter as well Yoono - socialize your Firefox includes twitter tools PingFire - post to ping.fm (thereby updating twitter) Twitter tools for Mac Twitterrific -
Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website. The application's user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac's desktop.

The 2010 FIFA soccer World Cup stadium

October 25, 2008 by evl

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here is the 2010 Fifa soccer world cup stadium in Cape Town, they seem busy putting up the wall pillars at the moment. Lots of things going on there.

Before starting your own business and quiting your job

October 7, 2008 by evl

I blog full time so talking about money for me is not really that hard. Its simple, i blog and I make money through sponsors etc. My expenses are really not that much but for people wanting to start their own business its really not that easy. Before quiting your job to start your business you really should make sure that staying on a couple of months could not benefit your business more than it would if you started it right away. With anything in life comes planning and if you dont plan how you will use your money wisely you might make the mistake of getting into something and not having the money to keep up if it does not work. Starting your own business envolves risk, the risk that you might not make it and the risk of failure but therein is the excitement as well. So, what I am saying is for example. Say you want to buy a machine and quit your job, using the machine you will start your business and become really successful. You have two choices 1 borrow the money 2 continue with your job and buy the machine cash, start your venture while working. See how number 2 there is backup and you can still enjoy the risk of starting your own business but the backup for failure.

Upload 1gig videos to youtube

October 1, 2008 by evl

Youtube recently updated some crap about meta, while they were busy they changed the file size upload limit to 1gig. Not that anyone in South African would be able to upload 1 gig but hey. Its the thought that counts.

Blogging Essentials

September 30, 2008 by evl

The other day I had a post on HOW TO START BLOGGING and i thought it would be great to ad this post to that one. Today I would like to show you some blogging essentials. Blogging is fun but at the same time blogging can teach you a lot of great stuff. One of those things is management. A blog has to be managed, almost like a business. If you dont do certain things a blog will just go dry. And soon the blog that is left to survive on its own will just become more search engine clutter with no real humans behind the box. The Blogging essentials that I am writing about today are not all needed but they are great tools to have. And if you dont know about them all you might find a treasure between all these things. If you know of everything that is listed here, feel free to add something I have missed. Rank Rank is important both for advertisers and for your blog to grow. While you or I dont really care much about rank, it still is a factor when trying to get your blog to the point where you can make a living from blogging. As some of you might of notice, its not a as you imagined before you started blogging. Blogging is tough. At least that is what I think. Ranking also enables you to make more money. For instance: People with a Pagerank of 6 could easily ask a nice price for advertisers whereas blogs that have a pr1 or 2 would not make that much money. Ranks reflect your blog's community and traffic. Most of the time. One thing about blogging is that the better your rank the more traffic you get and the more traffic you get the better you will rank. Here are some places to check your rank or status: Alexa Old, belongs to Amazon if I am correct. Alexa is not as accurate as some would claim, nevertheless people still use it and if you rate very high (low) on Alexa you can get more money for advertising space. Some companies use Alexa ranks to choose if they want to buy or sell domains. Alexa rank is important for your blog even with it's inaccuracy. Pagerank Pagerank used to be the biggest way people would rank a site. But in recent months no one really cares about Pagerank, or at least know one I know including me. That is because they have changed the old realiable way it worked. I am guess it was a good thing since they are improving their search, but for me, watching my PR go up and down every month is just to annoying. Technorati Technorati is also a great ranking tool. Technorati is also well known, they trace a few million blogs all over the internet. If you make it to the top 100, you've basically made it as a blogger. I would'nt mind. But recently technorati removed all Wordpress 2.3.3 blog. Maybe not removed but they stopped indexing them because of the vulnerability in Wordpress 2.3.3. I think I lost my technorati rank as well. But they did it so people's blogs wont get hacked. Amatomu The reason I am putting in Amatomu is because I am a South African. Amatomu matters for South African bloggers because it shows you where and how you rate between South African bloggers. Compete Another ranking system. Wordpress Adman Adman is a great plugin for Wordpress. Adman enables you to insert Google Adsense or other code generated by PPC or affiliates into your blog posts and on the frontpage. Adman has three options, paste it in on the top of your posts in the middle and below. There is also a setting that enables you to have a ad in the first post of your blog on the front page as well. Adman works great with Wordpress 2.5 Related Posts The related Posts plugin is great to enable your readers to explore your blog more. Using it underneath your post or below the comments where they can see it will also increase your pageviews because they might just read more posts. Related Posts works great in Wordpress 2.5 Popularity Contest Many Wordpress themes need this plugin to display the popular posts on the right hand side of the blog. It enables your readers to see which posts are nice and those that other people have liked. Money Adsense Adsense is well known. You can make a lot of money using Adsense if you use it correctly. Adsense was started a few years ago by another guy and got bought by Google. That is why we now know it as Google Adsense. Just a bit of info. The most famous adsense format is the 300x250, it is said that is the adsense format people make the most money with. I have to agree. Although many bloggers do not like seeing Adsense on other blogs, it is still widely used. Some people might disagree. Chitika Chtiika is one of my favourite ways to make money online. They offer a lot of formats and things that you can use to make money. I think the most famous one is the linx code. Linx code is the one I like the most. They also have a referral program where you can refer people and friends to them. You get paid for everyone you refer to them. Smorty Smorty offers a lot of different affiliate banners to choose from. Smorty is another way of blogging and posting payed blog posts. A nice way to make some more money. Linkworth Linkworth has many, many options and ad formats to choose from. you can also do payed posts for Linkworth to earn extra cash from your blog. Seo Headspace2 Traffic Entrecard Entrecard is a great way to get people to come to your site. You will just have to use more methods of attraction than the Entrecard widget itself. Entrecard is great for sites that first start out. But one thing you have to keep in mind if you are using entrecard is Adsense. Adsense and Entrecard does not work well together. That is because a lot of people come to your site just to click, but that brings your revenue from Adsense down. Feedburner The reason this is under traffic is because I first wrote it. I guess feedburner can go under tools or community. Feedburner is a way to keep track of your feed statisctics and helps you optimize your content. You can also make money with your feed by embedding Adsense in your feed through Feedburner. Community Blogcatalog Blogcataglog is the bussiest blog community site I have found so far. On Blogcatalog you can get a widget to embed in your blog. You can also get a lot of traffic from Blogcatalog if used correctly. Mybloglog Mybloglog is also a blogging community site. Theme Getting a unique theme or making your own theme unique is very important for branding purposes. A great theme will help you make more money while giving your viewers some eye candy. This is obvious. Your blog has to stand out from the crowd and be unique. It should reflect the blogger's taste. Firefox Scribefire or Deepest Sender Stragedy Having a blogging stragedy (plan or whatever its called) will enable you to work towards a certain goal. Here are some stragedies in blogging: Linking and networking with other bloggers This is really important. Since most people reading blogs are bloggers themselves. We as bloggers need to network and help each other. Networking is the most important thing that will keep your blog going. After all, remember when you did your first blog, it felt so stupid because it felt like you were speaking to yourself. That's how I felt. Not networking would mean you basically blog on your own. Commenting Commenting to show others that you actually read their blogs and participate is actually part of networking. Commenting is participating in the blogging community. Commenting should be done with caution. You can delete a crap post but you cant delete a crap comment. Comment on as many blogs as you can BUT do it sincere and not just to get people over to your blog. Competition Running competitions on your blog is a great idea to get your blog out there. Read more here Learn Wikipedia You can learn a lot of blogging terms at wikipedia. Although you cant trust everything you read its still worth something. Problogger.net I guess everyone knows problogger but I have learned a few things on his site and its worth including. So there it is. A few things that could help you start with blogging or further your blogging career / hobby. If you liked this post please consider bookmarking this on Sphinn / Stumbleupon / Digg or any other site you use.

10 Firefox extensions you can expand your favourite browser with.

September 30, 2008 by evl

1. Gmail Notifier Notifies you of new emails in gmail. Usefull if you check your emails every 10 seconds. You can tell it to check for new emails every minute. That way you dont have to go check yourself. You will get those emails as they come in. 2. Clipmarks A