Practise effective hand hygiene to prevent infections by learning how to wash your hands properly with Bloom Financial Services and Health4Me...
The SABS has issued a new standard for hand sanitisers, which manufacturers of these products and employers distributing them in the workplace should comply with...
Kate Collier, Shane Johnson, and Matthew Ilsley 16 Mar 2021
The 2021 Baxter Zabalaza Theatre Festival will be held at the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town from 20 to 27 March 2021, with all Covid-19 protocols in place, as regulated under Level 1 during the national lockdown.
Where many other government departments halted operations because of lockdown, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) under minister, Gwede Mantashe, continued to work...
Webber Wentzel team 29 Jan 2021
Just over a year after the coronavirus was first reported in China countries are still reeling from its effects. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes Covid-19 disease...
Puleng Segalo, Adeyemi Oladapo Arem, Pradeep Kumar 20 Jan 2021
Safety protocol, communication and collaboration across industries is key to economic recovery...
Anand Yedery 21 Dec 2020
The local production of hand sanitisers in South Africa has contributed to saving lives and earning export revenues for the country...
Airline health advice has so far mostly focused on staying hydrated and avoiding deep vein thrombosis. What passengers really want, however, is free hand masks, hand sanitiser and more space between passengers...
Ramon Zenel Shaban and Cristina Sotomayor-Castill 24 Nov 2020
Mava Silumko's First Accused will run for a limited period, with six performances only, at the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town from 12 to 21 November 2020...
Following seven long months of lockdown, Sun International's five-star Table Bay Hotel will once again throw open its doors to guests as of today, 30 October, making it the final hotel in the group to reopen...
Robin Fredericks 30 Oct 2020
Concern has been growing about safety issues related to hand sanitisers, and South Africa has been behind the curve in putting in place measures to ensure products are safe...
Lise Korsten 21 Oct 2020
South Africa's stringent lockdown earlier this year may have saved lives by containing the spread of Covid-19. New infections have been declining and lockdown restrictions relaxed. But this has triggered fears of a new wave of infections...
Laura Rossouw & Carmen S Christian 21 Oct 2020
Covid-19 brought a storm of surprising business conditions in South Africa - not only for the local media, but for public relations practitioners as well...
Cindy Preller 6 Oct 2020
As part of its alcohol harm-reduction initiatives, the South African liquor industry is working with Community Policing Forums (CPF) in targeted hotspot areas in four provinces...
Since the Brundtland Commission coined the phrase "sustainable development" in the late eighties, sustainability has had a bad rap...
Christelle Marais 27 Aug 2020
Counterfeiting is already a billion-dollar global problem, but the Covid-19 health crisis is making it worse. Specifically, opportunistic counterfeiters are taking advantage of the pandemic to market and distribute fake essential products - spurred on by increased demand and perceived shortages of essential goods...
Masi Mtshali 25 Aug 2020
Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck South Africa, we have set about sanitising our hands at regular intervals, and spraying down potentially contagious items and surfaces. But all anti-viral disinfectants are not made equal...
Vanessa Rogers, Issued by Sani-Med 20 Aug 2020
Consumer-facing industries have had to take exceptional precautions in a time of rapid change with business, people, processes and stakeholders retuning to adopt new approaches...
Michael Smollan 19 Aug 2020
Thanks to stringent lockdown measures, South African travel's been at an all-time low. Yet, as these sweeping regulations are eased, car rental agencies aren't taking any chances...
Issued by Domestic Flights South Africa 6 Aug 2020
In the days following South Africa's first case of Covid-19, Praekelt.org was busy using WhatsApp for good, building the Covid-19 chatbot using their social impact product Turn...
Issued by Praekelt 3 Aug 2020
Rachel Irvine, CEO of Irvine Partners writes why your comms specialist is your new best friend when doing business in the new normal...
Rachel Irvine 29 Jul 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the precariousness of a solely bricks and mortar model...
The reality is that public transport is a high-risk environment because of the number of people in a confined space with limited ventilation. There is also little if any access control to identify potentially sick commuters as well as a variety of common surfaces to touch such as handrails and doorknobs...
The Competition Commission said that of the 1,600 complaints received under the excessive pricing and consumer protection regulations by the end of June, 19% related to basic food products...
As the world emerges from various states of Covid-19 lockdown and the 'new normal' still presents many unknowns, one thing we know for sure is that it is imperative to adhere to stringent hygienic measures...
Issued by Sappi 16 Jul 2020
But exactly how have our shopping behaviours changed? Data shows interesting trends and demographics that may predict the South African shopping landscape for the future...
The Competition Tribunal has been clamping down on companies that have been hiking prices of sanitisers and masks since the Covid-19 outbreak...
A global biweekly consumer survey published by Deloitte earlier this month shows that traveller health and safety concerns, although gradually lessening, still overshadow discretionary travel...
While there is some serious lobbying to open South Africa to international travel as soon as September this year, health and safety concerns, although gradually lessening, still overshadow discretionary travel...
Diversification has emerged as a key business strategy to help small to medium enterprises (SMEs) negotiate the Covid-19 pandemic...
Report finds 70% of households in poor neighbourhoods source food from informal sector...
Zoë Postman 10 Jun 2020
With markets in current turmoil amid the coronavirus spread, this is the time for small businesses to relook at their current business processes and understand how their business can respond in these chaotic times...
Jameel Khan, Issued by SAICA 8 Jun 2020
These are challenging times for Africa and the rest of our global village...
Amina J. Mohammed 28 May 2020
The world is in unchartered territory and as many businesses face the harsh reality of lockdown, we are beginning to accept that jobs will be lost, orders will be cancelled...
Jan Bouwer 28 May 2020
Food safety is a major concern during the Covid-19 outbreak, and consumers, retailers and producers are understandably worried about keeping production lines and outlets uncontaminated...
The Duke Group created the Jive #5SecondsOfFunny Challenge, taking some of Cape Town's best-loved comedians online for 30 days of short, sharp five-second comedy snippets...
The scale of the national Covid-19 lockdown is unprecedented in living memory and entrepreneurs need to be making the right decisions...
Allon Raiz 18 May 2020
Allon Raiz, CEO of Raizcorp, has been sharing his views and insights on weathering the Covid-19 storm and even thriving after it. This week he takes a look at extending ways in which you can provide value...
Allon Raiz 18 May 2020
Proudly South African has extended the product offering on its portal to include locally produced hand sanitisers, surface disinfectants and detergents...
Countries that have suffered the most severe outbreaks of Covid-19 are seeing infection rates level off as lockdowns and widespread restrictions on movement take effect...
Michael Aldridge 15 May 2020
Puma SA's MD shares how the company is adapting to do business during the pandemic, and how Covid-19 will impact retail...
Lauren Hartzenberg 14 May 2020
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and the initial stockpiling of food and other items, government regulation of the prices of basic food and medical goods has received significant attention...
Willem H. Boshoff 14 May 2020
What happens if a tenant is unable to pay their rent? What if they can pay but choose not to in the interests of "fairness" - because why should only non-essential businesses get a payment holiday?
Bradley Jackson 14 May 2020
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...
Issued by Edge Growth 11 May 2020
Heinrich Ehlers, MD of Devmark Property Management, shares his experience of the current Covid-19 crisis and how his organisation is navigating these unusual times...
Sindy Peters 11 May 2020
We have had issues raised regarding our current pricing structure. Due to the increased demand of hand sanitisers worldwide, a lot of people and companies have suddenly begun manufacturing hand sanitisers and become experts!...
Karl Muller, operations manager at Tiger Brands Foundation, shares his experience of the current Covid-19 crisis and how his organisation is navigating these unusual times...
Sindy Peters 5 May 2020
Local company Matus has agreed to pay an administrative penalty of R5.9m after it admitted to inflation of its gross profit margins with regards to essential hygiene products...
With Covid-19 continuing to change the world as we know it, it has created a new normal that has placed digital at the forefront for any current and future business operation...
Wayne Flemming 30 Apr 2020
Revlon South Africa has started manufacturing hand sanitisers at its local factory in Isando under its brand, Aquamarine...