THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT
The Growth and Development Summit Agreement, signed by all the Nedlac constituencies on 7 June, contains commitments by all the constituencies on what they will contribute to addressing the growth and development challenges facing South Africa.
These commitments are summarised on the inside pages of this Dialogue. 

SUMMARY OF AGREEMENTS
All constituencies made commitments to work for more jobs, better jobs and decent work for all
This includes:
• Public Investment Initiatives in partnership with the private sector. Many of these initiatives will be mainstream infrastructure projects with a very strong construction and labour-based component. 

SOME SPECIFIC DEADLINES
The Growth and Development Summit agreements cover the immediate term, the medium-term and the long term. Some of the more immediate deadlines relate to:
• Co-operatives
A task team at Nedlac is already discussing co-operatives strategy. It was agreed that the task team should work towards presenting a final report in November 2003.

PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN UPDATE
Just over 18 months after it was founded, Proudly South African recently announced the 1000th member to join the campaign, making it the largest campaign of its kind in the world by number of companies subscribed. Blackstone Tek, a 100% South African company producing state-of-the art carbon fibre wheels for the high-performance motorcycle industry, was awarded the 1000th member insignia by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Alec Erwin, in Cape Town on 27 June.

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