Just over 200 South Africans had secured jobs with MSC Cruises to work on its cruise liners in both local waters and worldwide following the company’s first concerted recruitment drive in the country.

The cruise ship division of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) in Italy is to submit a bid to build and operate the proposed cruise passenger terminal, near the Durban Point Waterfront.

The Pavilion shopping centre in Westville is set to get a R228 million make-over and expansion with further mega-investments on the cards.

The terminal buildings of the old Durban International Airport, which will become home to Transnet’s new Maritime School of Excellence.

India’s Apollo Tyres has sold part of its South African business, including its Ladysmith passenger car tyre plant and Dunlop brand rights in Africa, to Japan’s Sumitomo Rubber Industries in a $60 million (R600m) deal.

Greg Orsmond, the managing director of the Witness Group and Fever Newspaper Group, has been fired, Media24 said.

For the media the National Development Plan “was not scandalous enough to make front page news”, Minister Trevor Manuel said.

Durban’s Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre complex (ICC) had increased profitability with a “concerted effort at managing costs more efficiently”, and not just through growing revenue from conferences and events.

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The Durban Container Terminal is set to see a "massive jump in productivity" with the commissioning into service of seven of the biggest container cranes in the southern hemisphere.