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banners[number++] = "<h3>Agriculture</h3><p>The free state is an agriculturally rich province. The sector contributes approximately 7% to the provincial gross domestic product (PGDP) while 14% of South Africa's agricultural GDP is generated in the Free State. The province supplies significant proportions of the nation's sorghum (53%), sunflower (45%), wheat (37%), maize (34%), potatoes (33%), groundnuts (32%), dry beans (26%), wool (24%) and almost all of its cherries (90%). Red meat and dairy are other important products.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=1&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Banking</h3><p>The South African banking sector is dominated by the banking Big Four – Standard Bank, Nedbank, Absa/Barclays and First National Bank (FNB). These four institutions drive a highly competitive and technically sophisticated banking and finance industry. The sector can accommodate the most demanding needs of business and foreign investors, with sector representatives across the banking, taxation and legal spheres well equipped to advise local and international parties on all aspects of the local banking environment.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=3&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Biotechnology</h3><p>Just a few years ago, there were predictions being made that maize was going to be the answer to the world's energy crisis. The idea was that the crop could be turned into environment-friendly biofuel, reducing costs and greenhouse-gas emissions. As the plains of the Free State are the biggest source of maize, it was thought that the biofuel industry might be the magic bullet to solve both energy and unemployment problems. As it is derived from a renewable source, biofuel is sustainable and easy to harvest.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=35&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Business Support Services</h3><p>Business-support services are those services that fall outside the core competencies of a business, but which are nonetheless integral to the successful running of any organisation. Services such as security, catering, cleaning, repairs, the provision of office furniture, stationery and air conditioning, software and hardware management, staffing, marketing, recruitment, and postal and bookkeeping services all play a vital role.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=5&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Call Centres &amp; Business Process Outsourcing</h3><p>The free state is moving fast to take advantage of the rapid growth of the callcentre and business-process outsourcing (BPO) industry. Low rental and labour costs, appropriate infrastructure and the availability of well-educated young people seeking employment are among the reasons for the suitability of this province to investors looking for opportunities to establish call centres.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=6&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Development Finance</h3><p>The free state Provincial Government and its agencies have actively been encouraging the growth of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) as a means of tackling unemployment and creating wealth. Partnerships are the order of the day in delivering opportunities to startup businesses, with national institutions typically teaming up with provincial and municipal entities. In the Free State, private companies have also been actively involved In a province with a large and important agricultural sector, the Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (the Land Bank) plays a vital role, not only in lending money to existing farmers but also in supporting emerging farmers and development projects. A low rate of interest (10%) is available to historically disadvantaged people to encourage them to take up farming.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=42&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Education</h3><p>Education in South Africa Nearly 20% of the national government's annual budget is devoted to education. A three-tier system is followed encompassing primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Most schools and tertiary institutions are state-run, but the sector has a very lively private or independent component.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=10&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Engineering</h3><p>Several major engineering projects in different parts of the Free State have boosted the engineering sector. Preparations for the 2010 Fifa World Cup have delivered major upgrades of the main and secondary stadia, the province's road network and the telecommunications infrastructure.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=11&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Manufacturing</h3><p>The free state economy is changing. Where before it was very reliant on primary sectors, such as agriculture and mining, it is increasingly growing its manufacturing sector, which now accounts for 12.7% of the provincial gross domestic product. Fourteen percent of Free State manufacturing is classified as high technology.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=40&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Media</h3><p>South Africa has as many as 20 daily and 13 weekly newspapers, the majority of which are available extensively across the nation, and certainly at key centres in the Free State. Today, South Africa's media is without restriction and the highest law of the land, the Constitution, aggressively safeguards freedom of speech in all circles. Reporters Without Borders rates the South African press among the freest in Africa, and consistently ahead of countries such as Italy, Spain and Australia.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=44&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Mining &amp; Metals</h3><p>The mining sector produced R162-billion, or 30%, of South Africa's merchandise exports in 2007, making it one of South Africa's greatest foreign-exchange earners. If semi-fabricated minerals are included, then total exports grow to around R268-billion. While total mining production may have declined by 0.8% in 2007, the depreciation of the Rand in fact raised the value of South African mineral sales by 14.5%.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=19&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Oil &amp; Gas </h3><p>The free state owes its importance in the oil and gas industry to Sasol, the integrated oil, petrochemicals and gas company. Sasol is an innovator and world leader in the use of Fischer-Tropsch technology, which uses catalysed chemical reactions to create a synthetic petroleum substitute from coal. Sasolburg hosts a fuel refinery (Natref), a rubber and carbo-chemical plant (Karbochem), Omnia Fertilisers and Safripol, which makes highdensity polyethylene and propylene.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=26&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Tourism &amp; Leisure</h3><p>There is a holiday for every kind of tourist in the Free State and increased investment in the sector is enlarging the offering and enhancing the quality of visitors' experiences. The Free State's very diverse physical environment lends itself to rugged mountaineering and hiking in the east, game viewing and hunting in a variety of locations and water sports, angling and birding at any one of the very many lakes, dams and rivers throughout the region. San paintings, Anglo- Boer War sites and memorials, traditional Sotho villages and crafts all add up to an eclectic historical, cultural and artistic mix.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=24&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"
banners[number++] = "<h3>Transportation</h3><p>Most of the projects in the public-works domain are in the R1-million to R5-million bracket. In the 2006/07 budget, 40% of the maintenance, upgrading and capital budget was set aside for achieving broad-based black- economic empowerment objectives, with preference in deciding on contractors and subcontractors being given to historically disadvantaged individuals.</p><p><a href=/pls/cms/ti_secout.secout_prov?p_sid=43&amp;p_site_id=169>Click here for more News &amp; Companies in this Sector</a></p>"

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