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<\/p>\nCape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is currently drumming up more investment for the Cape Town economy in the United States.<\/p>\n
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The US is a key economic partner to the City of Cape Town, and is the biggest source of foreign direct investment into the city economy by some distance.<\/p>\n
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The list of large international companies invested in Cape Town continues to grow and includes the likes of Microsoft, Roche, Johnson & Johnson, DHL, Unilever, KPMG, Burger King, IBM, Kimberley Clark, and the latest addition, retail giant Amazon.<\/p>\n
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\u2018We want to get more Capetonians into work, and a big part of this is drumming up international investor confidence in our city.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018There is definitely cause for optimism in Cape Town\u2019s future, with a record infrastructure investment pipeline, more new jobs created in the past year than all other SA cities combined, advanced plans for water and energy security, and tourism at an all-time high alongside other growing sectors,\u2019 said Mayor Hill-Lewis at the US Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Mayor\u2019s other engagements in Washington DC have included an address at the Woodrow Wilson Centre focusing on the challenges of rapid urbanisation in Africa, and the Corporate Council on Africa, which promoted and facilitates investment for US companies in Africa.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mayor Hill-Lewis now heads to New York to meet the Business Chamber of International Understanding (BCIU) and Mayor Eric Adams.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In making the investment case for Cape Town, Mayor Hill-Lewis is emphasising:<\/p>\n Mayor Hill-Lewis is further outlining how the City is working towards key economic reforms, including taking operational control of the passenger rail service, the formal devolution of more policing powers, and private sector involvement in the Port of Cape Town.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Before returning to Cape Town next week, Mayor Hill-Lewis will head to London for engagements including with Mayor Sadiq Khan and the SA Chamber of Commerce UK.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On Tuesday, 23 January, the Mayor will deliver an address at the London School of Economics, titled \u201cCity of hope \u2013 lessons from Cape Town for the future of South Africa and African cities\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":6202,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6179","news-articles","type-news-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-events"],"acf":{"banner_title":"News<\/em>","latest_news_blocks":"","key_banner_image":6202},"yoast_head":"\n\n