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WESSEL BADENHORST AND CHRIS REY On Friday, 8 May 2020, the Labour Court upheld an urgent application by Numsa and the SA Cabin Crew Association (the Unions) against South African Airways (SAA) and its business rescue practitioners (BRPs) and ordered that it was procedurally unfair to retrench employees before a business rescue plan contemplating such retrenchments was published and adopted... |
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 | ISSUED BY UCT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS The latest ranking of customised programmes from the Financial Times shows the University Cape Town Graduate School of Business is leading in South Africa... read |
|  | | 81% of South Africans said they were either uncertain or pessimistic about the country's economic recovery after Covid-19, compared to 72% in March... read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | CRAIG LASKEY Although the construction industry is known to be at the forefront of risk mitigation, as it follows very strict processes in line with stringent health and safety laws, Covid-19 has highlighted what a critical role safety, health, environment and quality (SHEQ) plays in the sector... Read |
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| Finance |
 | ISSUED BY EDGE GROWTH The Edge Growth-managed Vumela Fund recently invested a R25-million funding line in ProfitShare Partners to specifically help SMEs who supply and deliver essentials in the fight against Covid-19... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | NICCI BOTHA The government needs to relook at its Covid-19 lockdown and testing strategy, because it's not going to stem the tide of community transmission... Read |
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 | RODRIGO OLIVARES-CAMINAL Africa is home to 41 of the International Monetary Fund's 59 Low Income Countries. These are more structurally vulnerable to external shocks such as Covid-19... Read |
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 | MELISSA MBAZO Africa's entrepreneurship rate is the highest in the world. According to the African Development Bank (AfDB), 22 % of Africa's working age population segment are starting their own businesses... Read |
 | GAVIN WEALE Gavin Weale, CEO and founder of Digify Africa, shares ten things the virtual SME has learned in the time of Covid-19... Read |
 | Covid-19 and the economic downturn has and will continue to have a devastating impact on SMEs throughout South Africa... Read |
 | JOHN MANYIKE It's near impossible to forecast with any certainty what awaits South Africans beyond the national lockdown. The only certainty at this stage is that things will not be as they were before... Read |
 | ALLON RAIZ In an environment in which threats are highly systemic, many are unseen or unknown. More importantly, they are fluid. For this reason, you have to consider and reconsider your threats daily and try to understand their impact and mitigation... Read |
 | At the beginning of March few anticipated the significant impact the Covid-19 pandemic would have on the lives of all South Africans... Read |
 | MANDY DUNCAN Many employees do not have access to Wi-Fi or stable internet connections during the pandemic, therefore companies have to think of other ways to ensure productivity at home... Read |
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