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 | Applications and nominations for the Association for Office Professionals of South Africa/Rexel Office Products National Office Professional of the Year Award need to be received by 15 July. Read more >>
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 | In South Africa, there is a prevailing trend to also refer to millennials - young people born in the nineties - as the 'born frees' because they never experienced the Apartheid era. Read more >>
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 | Rona Sauer We all know that technology has changed the workplace, but there's another work transformation going on, which is only just starting to resonate. Read more >>
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 | Unathi Kondile is the winner of the British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur (YCE) - Culture Award for 2014. He is the publisher of a monthly national Xhosa newspaper called iSigidimi. Read more >>
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 | Candace McDonald The aspect of creating and indeed starting a new business venture or dream can be a daunting task... Read more >>
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 | 3D printing has the potential to change the way South African businesses operate, as well as introduce a new stream of entrepreneurs into the economy. Read more >>
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 | Amanda Visser Small- and medium-sized engineering companies must create niche markets for themselves to supply Transnet with parts for the locomotives that the freight logistics company envisages building within the next two to three decades. Read more >>
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 | Ina van der Merwe According to the US Department of Commerce, poor hiring practices are responsible for 30% of all business failures in the US. Locally, in 2013, Managed Integrity Evaluation (MIE) carried out a survey that showed nearly 20% of all job seekers in South Africa represented some degree of risk. Read more >>
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 | Greg Brown With legislation and regulation increasing hiring criteria, the list of background checks is getting longer and it is becoming harder to understand what checks need to be conducted in your business to ensure you are protecting yourself and your company against reputational and financial risk. Read more >>
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 | The first hint of possible future tax hikes was given in an oblique statement by the Treasury on new areas of work for the tax review committee headed by Judge Dennis Davis. Read more >>
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 | Students who fail to find a job soon after graduating, or allow their student-loan debt to increase, could be burdened by decades-old debt well into their 50s. Read more >>
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 | Mark Allix Transnet says there were 10 "coordinated attacks" last week against workers who had chosen not to take part in strike action organised by the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (Numsa) at its Ngqura Container Terminal near Port Elizabeth. Read more >>
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 | Phakamisa Ndzamela Sanlam says it has R3bn in discretionary capital that is earmarked for growth opportunities mainly in Africa and South-East Asia. Read more >>
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 | Ntsakisi Maswanganyi and Nick Hedley New data show that manufacturing, the second-biggest sector in the economy, contracted for the second consecutive month in May‚ raising red flags for the outlook for the rest of the year. Read more >>
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 | Nigerian companies have a "huge appetite" for investing in South Africa, says the Nigeria-SA Chamber of Commerce. Read more >>
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 | Rona Sauer A recent survey conducted by Regus, the global workplace provider, has revealed that, as companies continue to face tougher business conditions, there is increased pressure to make efficiency a top priority. Read more >>
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 | Chandrakumar BJG The global mining industry, with its role in the resources supply chain, acts as a core force influencing the health of the 'global economy'. Numerous industries across the globe depend on the supply of commodities. Read more >>
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