South African Breweries will be launching a new B-BBEE scheme later this month. This will be replacing the old SAB Zenzele scheme, which reaches maturity this May...
Covid-19 has created enormous disruptions in the lives of African youth. Millions of young people have had their learning put on hold for the better part of a year...
Dr Edward K. Brown 13 Apr 2021
Tech-driven marketing solutions agency TQ Group has announced its partnership with fund managers Legacy Africa Capital Partners, a part of Legacy Africa Fund Managers...
Issued by TQ Group 12 Apr 2021
Target will add products from more than 500 Black-owned businesses across its multi-category assortment and increase its spend with more Black-owned companies...
Africa recorded remarkable economic growth in the first 15 years of the 21st century, largely because of positive trends in the export of primary commodities...
Cristina Duarte 16 Mar 2021
Pertunia Sibanyoni, CEO of InspectaCar, has been appointed as the new chair of Franchise Association of South Africa (Fasa) for 2021/2022...
The company launched its first Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) Hub in Rustenburg on 1 March 2021...
Until the 2000s, Sub-Saharan Africa was de-industrialising: the mood was gloomy as the little manufacturing activity that did exist was disappearing. But the trend has reversed...
Gaaitzen de Vries, Emmanuel B Mensah, Hagen Kruse and Kunal Sen 2 Mar 2021
Governments in most developing countries use medium-term expenditure frameworks as fiscal policy instruments to match the imperatives of policy, planning and budgeting over the medium-term horizon...
Matthew Kofi Ocran 23 Feb 2021
Around the globe, concern is mounting about the unfolding climate and ecological catastrophe...
Judith Verweijen & Alexander Dunlap 23 Feb 2021
I chat with Solly Moeng ahead of the Davos Online Communications Summit, where he was one of the panellists at the virtual event on Thursday 25 February 2021...
Evan-Lee Courie 22 Feb 2021
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) is calling for applications for its 2021 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. With the deadline fast approaching on 31 March 2021...
A new Explanatory Notice issued by the B-BBEE Commission in January requires more supporting evidence for B-BBEE claims. Although this may seem onerous, it will strengthen the Commission's ability to make recommendations for improvement.
Candice Meyer 16 Feb 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the world: governments, business leaders, citizens into unimaginable transformation...
Gary Joseph 9 Feb 2021
Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa has increased its B-BBEE ownership to a revised 20% target, with a significant worker ownership component...
The strategic planning team at Regent Business School decided there was a need for a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem that supports the new paradigm in entrepreneurship and encourages aspiring entrepreneurs to develop new skills, innovate and pursue their ideas, especially for furthering inclusivity...
Ahmed Shaikh, Issued by Regent Business School 18 Jan 2021
Most South Africans are now understandably keen to see the end of 2020 and are hoping for better times in 2021, after what has been a rollercoaster year for SA's political economy...
Raymond Parsons 30 Dec 2020
Thursday, 3 December 2020, saw 141 small businesses led by historically underserved entrepreneurs graduate from the bespoke Funding Accelerator Programme, aptly named 'Khulisa iBiznis', meaning 'Grow your business'...
Issued by SAICA 15 Dec 2020
Residential real estate, while also being impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, has so far proven to be one of the more resilient sectors...
Dr Andrew Golding 15 Dec 2020
As the Youth Innovation Challenge came to a close, we were excited to announce the 2020 winners...
Issued by Innovate Durban 2 Dec 2020
Black Wolf Youth Agency is an NPC (not-for-profit company) and a division of Black Wolf Group. The youth agency will be managed by our future industry leaders, the youth...
Rabbi Marcelino Gonsalves, Issued by Black Wolf Agency 26 Nov 2020
The short answer is yes, but it is a little more complicated than that, as there could be benefits too. Contrary to popular perception, prescribed assets are not a process by which the government takes a portion of your retirement funds, which decreases the value.
Ronald King 30 Oct 2020
Over the past two decades various African National Congress (ANC) administrations in South Africa have sought to redistribute income to the poor and the vulnerable. They have also sought to stimulate rapid economic growth...
Matthew Kofi Ocran 30 Oct 2020
Are you part of the "begrudging camp", the laissez-fair group, or the "how much - give me my BEE points" brigade?..
Issued by BEE Analyst 21 Oct 2020
Opening the 13th annual Trialogue Business in Society Conference this week, Dr Mamphela Ramphele, co-founder of ReimagineSA, noted that the Covid-19 crisis offers South Africans opportunities to tackle the unfinished agenda of transforming our society...
Digital payment specialist Ozow and AfricArena are challenging tech talent across the nation to help deliver a new wave of fintech innovation leveraging the new Ozow API...
Africa's low level of economic diversification is a leading factor in the continent's economic fragility. Further, the Covid-19 pandemic has magnified the risks of countries' over-dependence on a single natural resource such as oil...
Njuguna Ndung'u 28 Sep 2020
Four MTN employees have become BBBEE owner-operators of 14 stores across Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal...
The Glenryck brand joins the 100% black-owned Pioneer Fishing, under the umbrella of African Pioneer Marine...
Small Business Development Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has called on Clicks to commit to tangible corrective action by actively promoting black hair products that are manufactured by black women...
"SANParks has postponed the free access week which is traditionally held in September, to November due to the Covid-19 alert level 2 regulations which restrict the number of persons allowed within public spaces."
The National Assembly has passed the Disaster Management Tax Relief Bill and the Disaster Management Tax Relief Administration Bill...
Dr Nadine Lake is a lecturer and Programme Director of the Gender Studies programme in the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies...
Dr Nadine Lake, Issued by University of the Free State 25 Aug 2020
Giving small businesses the tools they need to succeed is crucial in ensuring economic sustainability in Africa...
Lusapho Njenge 6 Aug 2020
The Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Commission has released its annual report on the national status and trends on B-BBEE...
Despite four consecutive quarters of contraction and ongoing challenges due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa's agriculture sector rebounded by 27.8% quarter-on-quarter...
Casey Delport 28 Jul 2020
The remarkable economic transformation of Asia in recent decades has attracted global attention. It has ignited scholarly and policy debates about the region's development models and strategies...
Mills Soko 27 Jul 2020
We need to confront infrastructure and governance constraints that have hindered the growth of agriculture over the past two decades...
"The purpose of the project is to revitalise small and medium-business urban farming, offer training, and increase job opportunities in Philippi."
Africa has experienced a decade of positive socio-economic growth, supported by a continued progress of electricity access that finally outpaced population growth between 2014 and 2018...
Addressing South Africa's socio-economic failings - inadequate growth, unemployment, poverty and so on - has been the central preoccupation of government since 1994...
Terence Corrigan 10 Jul 2020
The South African Institute of Black Property Practitioners (SAIBPP) notes with concern the recent Supplementary Budget presented by the minister of finance, Tito Mboweni...
Tholo Makhaola 29 Jun 2020
In the Chinese language the word crisis is composed of two characters, one represents danger and the other one represents opportunity. What possible opportunity can be hidden amid the economic crisis South Africa and the world is facing?...
Brend Badenhorst, Issued by Small Business Coach 14 May 2020
The programme is expected to create an additional 1,726 permanent and seasonal jobs in the citrus industry...
The R200m Tourism Relief Fund has been established as an intervention to mitigate against the impact of Covid-19 in the tourism sector...
Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) is supporting the national Youth Employment Service (YES) programme by offering work opportunities to 520 unemployed youth...
Led by DHL veteran, Sue Donoghue; Industry veteran, Firas Sukkar takes on role of country manager in Kuwait, the group plans to further capitalise on the region's growth prospects by synergising resources and expertise...
Omni HR Consulting recently introduced the Omni Development Stack, a purpose-built model aimed to support organisations with industry-relevant training and development solutions...
Issued by Omni HR Consulting 9 Mar 2020
Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa announced that it had surpassed its three-year target to transform R3.9bn of preferential procurement to black suppliers...