CAPITAL: The Voice of Business Issue 1, 2015 | Page 6

CONTENTS

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30 LUNCH MEETINGS

Brian Zuma – former spin doctor for the Msunduzi
Municipality – is now spinning disks as a parttime deejay while marketing the City of Choice’s
football team, Maritzburg United. He shares a
sandwich at his favourite lunch spot, and tells us
about his career and future plans.

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38 REINCARNATING CANS

That receptacle of refreshment, the ubiquitous
beverage can, is undergoing a fundamental
makeover. A Pietermaritzburg company is at the
forefront of this historic change.

44 URBAN RENEWAL

There are as many opposing ideas for what constitutes urban renewal as there are street corners in
a city. What is in store for the centre of KwaZuluNatal’s capital city?

52 OUR VITAL STATISTICS

If it is indeed the mark of a truly intelligent person
to be moved by statistics – as playwright, critic,
political activist and a co-founder of the London
School of Economics, George Bernard Shaw said –
then we give you four pages of infographics to get
your blood pumping.

56 REVIVING THE CITY

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Pietermaritzburg’s municipality is implementing
a R1 billion power plan to strengthen the city’s
electricity grid. Meanwhile, the PCB has found an
elegantly simple solution to disruptive electricity
theft.