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Sun International workers strike
Four Sun International casinos were hit by a
strike on 2 October as workers and their union
Saccawu called for a 13 per cent wage increase
instead of the above inflation eight per cent
offered by the company. They also want tips
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allocated unconditionally to workers and an end
to averaging of working hours. CEO David
Coutts-Trotter said the demands would equate
to a 49 per cent increase in the wage bill during
a “very serious recession”.
AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST
Boardwalk expansion to
create 5,000 construction jobs
Having been granted provisional approval for the new Boardwalk casino licence, which will
run from October 2010 for 15 years, the incumbent Emfuleni Resorts is planning
significant investment that will create thousands of jobs in the Eastern Cape venue.
housewin a new casino resort develop- the parking provision and Eastern Cape and the national
SOUTH AFRICA ment on the dockside of Port build a spa and fitness centre. fiscus stand to benefit materi-
Elizabeth was refused. The work will begin in the ally. By 2025, an estimated
The Eastern Cape Gambling Emfuleni will now begin a early part of next year, accord- R600m (E55m) will be con-
With Emfuleni’s award of
and Betting Board has made a two-year expansion and refur- ing to the Emfuleni chairman tributed to government by
the next 15-year licence,
the Boardwalk will see a
provisional award of the new bishment programme at the Bongi Siwisa. The extended way of taxes, levies and fees,
R1bn investment in
gaming licence for the Board- Boardwalk costing R1bn casino and convention and the Boardwalk is
expansion beginning
walk Casino on Nelson (E92m) that will include an centre could be open by the expected to have contributed early in the new year
Mandela Bay to Emfuleni international standard end of 2010 with the hotel as much as a cumulative
Resorts, a subsidiary of Sun 3,000sq m convention centre, and the rest of project com- R26bn (E2.4bn) to indirect
International, the holder of a five-star hotel, further shops pleted in 2011. household income…the 5,000 jobs at a time when the almost 500 extra direct jobs
the current licence. and a new smoking casino The company said: “The cumulative contribution to work in the construction will have been created by
The company won out over and additional slot machines. Boardwalk has become a GDP could amount to as much sector generated by prepara- time the programme is com-
a local hotel development It will also build the world’s tourism icon for Nelson as R50bn (E4.6bn).” tions for the World Cup 2010 pleted, bringing the total
company Embo, whose appli- longest water tunnel and Mandela Bay with over 24m The expansion pro- will be coming to an end. The number employed at Board-
cation to move the licence to musical fountains, increase visitors to date…Both the gramme will create around company estimates that walk to about 2,100.
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